"Hook up" = have casual sex?

Fri Jan 27 01:32:37 UTC 2006

On Jan 26, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Larry Horn wrote:

> At 11:23 AM -0500 1/26/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>
>> ... Till now, I've thought of a "hook-up" as a real relationship that
>> includes sex and not as a term that includes random acts of casual
>> sex
>> within a "friendship with privileges." Perhaps I need to get out
>> more.
>
> Or lurk among undergraduates.  Students have been supplying this as a
> term of art for several years in my new words lexicon--suggesting
> that this use of "hook-up" is one they encounter when they come to
> Yale (who says education isn't broadening?).

yeah, this is old stuff, at *least* ten years back at stanford (i'm
not so sure about ohio state, but then i haven't been there for eight
years and haven't taught undergrads there for over twelve years).

arnold

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