Elon University's Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies program invites Lisa Wade for The Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Lecture in LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center at 7:30 p.m.
The media both celebrates and condemns “hookup culture,” a mythical environment in which college students have an endless string of casual sexual partners. In fact, students are having a lot less sex than these stories suggest. More, they report that the sex they are having is disappointing, to say the least.
In this talk, Lisa Wade suggests that the problem on college campuses isn’t too much sex, it’s bad sex: unpleasurable, unwanted, uncaring and competitive. The solution? Not to abandon the casual hookup (it has some interesting advantages), but to multiply the sexual discourses on campus in ways that give students the cognitive freedom and cultural support to make the sexual choices that are best for each of them.
Sponsored by Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies, Dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, Public Health Studies and Kappa Omicron Nu (the honor society for Public Health and Exercise Science majors)