The Hookup Script

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Male Control Over the Hookup Script Kathleen Bogle’s book Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus analyzes the subculture surrounding quick, causal sexual encounters, or “hookups,” on two different college campuses. Although one was a smaller, faith-based private school and the other a larger state school, Bogle discovered the social conventions surrounding hooking at both schools to be similar. The combination of gender-based social scrutiny, Greek influence, and pervasive alcohol use that makes up heterosexual college hookup culture solidifies male control over women within the hookup script. The way in which female sexual expression is sensationalized on college campuses punishes women for participating in the hookup …show more content…

This is because alcohol helps mask one’s inhibitions and insecurities, which can often bring people together. Alcohol is also especially pervasive within the frat scene. “When I asked students to explain how someone would end up hooking up with someone with whom they had no prior sexual interaction,” Bogle states, “they would often answer by saying ‘alcohol.’“ (Bogle, 30). Because alcohol impairs judgment, it often prompts individuals to make choices they would not otherwise make while sober. At frat parties I’ve been to at Emory and Georgia Tech, I’ve seen guys use alcohol intending to coerce them into performing sexual actions with them. “When she’s sober she may seems like a sweet, innocent Korean girl, but the second alcohol hits her lips, [she] changes into a totally different person,” an Emory fraternity brother once said to me about an international Korean student. This fraternity brother had gotten this girl very drunk, and I ended up having to separate them because neither could make coherent decisions. This incident showed me the consequences of drinking alcohol, as well as how males use alcohol as an instrument of coercion against female

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