Hooking Up

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Hooking up: sexual liberation or unethical exploitation? With the rise of dating apps, sexual gratification seems like a few taps (or swipes) away at any given moment. What implications does this have for sexual ethics around consent, fantasy, and using other people merely for pleasure? In episode 35, Ellie and David dive into the history, theory, and criticisms of hookup culture. Is there a way to hook up ethically? Some argue that the power imbalances fundamental to hooking up prevent it from ever being on equal grounds, yet others claim that the shift to hooking up generates potential for queer exploration and for sexual discretion in ways that were previously unavailable. Let’s find out!

Works Discussed

F Boy Island (TV Show)
James Rocha, The Ethics of Hooking Up
Danielle M. Currier, “Strategic Ambiguity: Protecting Emphasized Femininity and Hegemonic Masculinity in the Hookup Culture”
Lisa Wade, American Hookup
Lisa Wade and Joseph Padgett, “Hookup Culture and Higher Education”
Lisa Rudd, “Beyond the Closet”
Lee Edelman, No Future
Slavoj Žižek, A&F Quarterly, Back to School Issue 2003
Leo Bersani, Is the Rectum a Grave?

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0:00.0	Before we get into today's episode, we want to give a quick content warning.
0:04.2	This episode briefly discusses sexual violence.
0:13.8	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:16.2	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:17.8	Welcome to Overthink.
0:19.6	The podcast were two friends who are also professors.
0:23.1	Put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:26.2	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:42.8	David, I can't stop watching this reality dating show called F-Boy Island.
0:47.4	I honestly don't know why you watch these. Period. That's where I'm at. I'm so fascinated by cultural depictions of love and sex, especially as they relate to these
0:53.5	hidden social scripts that we all sort of like recognize as, especially as they relate to these, like, hidden social
0:54.5	scripts that we all sort of like recognize as in the air. So, for instance, the figure of the F boy,
0:59.7	I think is so interesting. I think the F boy is a picture of low-key toxic masculinity, right?
1:06.2	The kind of guy that straight women warn each other about, but are simultaneously tempted by.
1:11.4	And so the show trades on precisely this dynamic of attraction and repulsion.
1:16.6	And it also plays on the binary between so-called nice guys and F-boys.
1:21.5	Well, for the record, I'm a nice guy.
1:23.6	Oh, my gosh.
1:24.0	Although people who say that are usually F boys in disguise.
1:27.4	Be suspicious of anyone who calls themselves a nice guy. I am a nice guy. Oh my gosh. People who say that are usually F-boys in disguise. Be suspicious of anyone who
1:28.9	calls themselves a nice guy. I am a master of suspicion, including of myself. But there's a way in which
1:35.4	the figure of the F-boy is just a new iteration of other figures of, as you say, low-key masculinity,
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