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In the conservative world, hook-up culture is often understood primarily as a symptom of sexual excess. Because young people do not place a high value on sex, they will have as much of it as they can with as many partners as possible. In this narrative, every young person is Samantha from Sex in the City, pursuing intercourse as a leisure activity. The intrinsic connection between sex and love has been severed for my students. Sex is just as often the opening salvo, facilitated by dating apps like Tinder. Almost every young woman has had an experience in which the first communication they re...

The future of Christian marriage JavaScript in your web browser. Please Go Engaging views and analysis from outside contributors on the issues affecting society and faith today. CP VOICES do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Post. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s). CP Current Page: Voices | The future of Christian marriage The future of Christian marriage (Photo: Unsplash/Scott Webb) Ask any random group of ten elderly couples about their marriage, and half of them will probably say something like this: “We were high school sweethearts, tied the ...

 Can you say something about what having a background in both disciplines gives you over another scholar who addresses these issues only from the perspective of theology or only from the perspective of sociology? Bullivant: Well, obviously, I like to think that you’re right. Though I can’t claim that ending up as a theologian-sociologist is the culmination of some grand plan. First of all, I fell into theology. I went to university as an 18-year-old as an atheist studying archaeology, and came out seven years later as a very-recently baptized Catholic with a doctorate on dogmatic theolog...

Ready for commitment, there are still plenty of women out there ready to have no strings attached hook-ups. one finding from the new book, "premarital sex in america: how young americans meet, mate and think about marrying," one of the authors of that book from the university of texas at austin is joining us live. mark, good to see you. >> good to see you, too, randi. >> interesting topic. in doing this research, what surprised you most about unmarried young adults? >> right. the thing that surprised me the most is how male centered sort of the sexual economy is when you're talking about 18 to...

Sexual, meaning they added sex to the relationship, within a month of the formation of that relationship. and a majority of those, it happened within two weeks. and plenty of the people we talked to, it happened even before the relationship started. which is not a good key to commitment in a relationship. now, plenty of people don't want that commitment just yet. but when you do eventually want commitment, what you have done up to that point matters. one of the things we talk about is there's no completely discrete sex. every sexual act is sort of a price point in what people will expect next ...