Gordon: Love and ketamine
I’ve been trying recently to talk to my mother about boys. I want to share these kinds of life details with her, but it’s hard. We just have different frames of reference. So I’ve developed a special language.
“Wanting to hook up” with a boy translates to “liking.” “Sorta hooking up” is “seeing.” “Hooking up” is dating. And “exclusive” in her world is “a little more than hooking up” in mine. Sometimes there’s confusion. Like one time when I told her I “kissed” a boy (read: hooked up) and she replied: “That’s because he respects you.” I think that was a linguistic-ideological...
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By Will A.
6:34p.m. on October 3, 2008
hooking up doesn't necessarily mean sex. maybe YOUR definitions are flawed Y'10.
There are Yalies who don't have sex before marriage... To them, hooking up doesn't equal a relationship. Your definitions are flawed.