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Study challenges 'hookup culture' view of college life

Study challenges 'hookup culture' view of college life


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SALT LAKE CITY — When college life is examined through the lens of popular media, it's often portrayed as newly hypersexualized, a "hookup culture" with an unprecedented level of no-strings-attached sexual behavior. But when researchers from the University of Portland compared sexual activity of current college-age adults against the behavior of the same age group in the late-1980s and 1990s, the image doesn't hold.

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