MSNBC has a interesting article up on author Laura Sessions Stepp and her contention that "hooking up" may be bad for girls.  (I know, I know, hardly a shock.)

The reasons to avoid hooking up include:

…hookups can be damaging to young
women, denying their emotional needs, putting them at risk of
depression and even sexually transmitted disease, and making them
ill-equipped for real relationships later on.

The critics say:

The author “imagines the female body as a thing that can be tarnished
by too much use,” wrote reviewer Kathy Dobie in Stepp’s own paper, the
Post, and suggested that Stepp was, in one part, trying to “instill
sexual shame.” For Meghan O’Rourke, literary editor at Slate.com, Stepp
is “buying into alarmism about women,” and making sex “a bigger,
scarier, and more dangerous thing than it already is.”

Her "advice" is:

But she isn’t saying girls should not have sex; just that they should
have it in the context of a meaningful connection: “I am saying that
girls should have choices.”

Quite interesting that a woman is telling other girls to be selective (and not even abstain) and she gets a fair amount of grief.  Is that a statement of life in 2007 or what?

Source of quotes and the full article:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17540879/