A Review of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on CampusAn assertion of this book is that dating is disappearing. So now parents don't have to think about their older children getting into casual sexual relations. Wrong, suggests the author.With dating, males make significant efforts; gather money, transportation, etc to make a date possible. Dating was a test of a male's ability to manage resources. This was true in colleges where males were a majority during the 20th century.Males are in the minority in colleges in the 21st century; 40% to 60% females, typically. Males are "scarcer" and no longer have an edge in jobs as they used to. Male resources are no longer larger than those of the females.These conditions have led to less dating and now females often have to now seek out a male if they want a relationship with one. Also, males "pick and choose" more often than they ever did in the past. Even if a female might want to see the same male repeatedly, the male is freer than ever to opt out. Instead, the male can opt for brief sexual encounters with different females.Hence, we have the "hook-up." This serious sounding term is actually vague as it can mean getting together for just kissing and necking or it can mean sexual intercourse. It is not a repeated relationship with the same person. In fact, some females might wind up waiting for a "call" to "come over" and "hook up," with just a simple text message.This situation is gloomy for a female looking for a marriage mate. Options seem few. The writer of this review suspects that females asking males out on dates might be an effective option.The author of this book uses stories of people that she has interviewed to describe details without elaborate statistics. She also describes her methods of getting students to "tell all," interesting to people doing surveys. Overall, the book is good for keeping up with the Gen Y culture...