Quotes tagged ‘hookup culture’

“Well, I like porn, and I think that people should do whatever they want. But the point being that this generation is so—porn is so accessible that sometimes guys don’t actually connect to the person that’s in front of them.”

— Amy Poehler, amazon.com

“The world is full of women and I intend on sleeping with at least 100 of them before I date someone.”

— Ann Deborah Fishman, Lance Black, Noah Centineo, imdb.com

“I'm sick of sleeping with these insipid Manhattan debutantes. Nothing shocks them anymore.”

— Roger Kumble, Sebastian Valmont, Ryan Phillippe, imdb.com

“Society propagates this vision of people hooking up and staying together forever. In reality, how often does that actually happen?”

— Rick Cleveland, Claire Fisher, Lauren Ambrose, imdb.com

“I've been deleting and reactivating Tinder for six years. You know you've had a dating app for too long when you start noticing people's personal growth. When you're swiping through like 'oh cool, Freddie420 went to grad school after all.'”

— Dina Hashem, facebook.com

““Why do young women have sex with men they don’t want to have?” is a question that begs another question: “How has men telling their female peers for the first decade of their adult lives that they aren’t ready for commitment affected women’s self-worth and thus their ability to set sexual boundarie…”

— Holly Wood, medium.com

“As soon as the sun would go down, they'd unlock the doors, and people would come in, go out new faces every night. And I'd wake up to go to the bathroom, and there'd be some naked woman in the hall or two strangers fucking on the couch. After a while, I just couldn't do it, you know? So I waited for…”

— Harris Danow, Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“As soon as the sun would go down, they'd unlock the doors, and people would come in, go out new faces every night. And I'd wake up to go to the bathroom, and there'd be some naked woman in the hall or two strangers fucking on the couch. After a while, I just couldn't do it, you know? So I waited for…”

— Harris Danow, Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“The younger generation is growing up at an exciting yet terrifying time: a time when connections can be made instantaneously, yet meaningful connections are becoming harder and harder to find.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Mobile dating went mainstream about five years ago; by 2012 it was overtaking online dating. In February, one study reported there were nearly 100 million people—perhaps 50 million on Tinder alone—using their phones as a sort of all-day, every-day, handheld singles club, where they might find a sex…”

— Nancy Jo Sales, vanityfair.com

“You're allowed to want more than just a one night stand.”

— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com

“We can create a hook-up culture that doesn’t treat people as disposable.”

— Daniel Villarreal, unicornbooty.com