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Posted
Monday, December 15, 2008 5:01 PM
| By
Torie Bosch
In a weekend New York Times op-ed on hook-up culture in high schools and colleges, Charles M. Blow writes as if casual sex instead of dating is a new-millennium thing: "Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay. ... When I first heard about hooking up years ago, I figured that it was a fad that would soon fizzle. I was wrong. It seems to be becoming the norm."
It's not so new, Mr. Blow. From the Vows column from this weekend's NYT, on a couple who met in 1975, married in 1985, divorced in 1995, and remarried on Nov. 29:
They first went "moon eyed" for each other in 1975, skipping past the dating phase, and, in the spirit of the times, jumping into a live-in relationship.
"People didn't date," remembered Ms. Kallir, 54. "You hung out and then you slept together."