Unhooked How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both

In Unhooked, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives readers an inside view of the hook-up culture, where young people's sexual contact rarely comes with long-term expectations. What she discovers is both disturbing and enlightening: a successful and fiercely independent generation of young women who are ill-equipped to balance sexual freedom with commitment. Although their sexual intelligence is higher than ever, they're disillusioned by love and unsure how to build lasting, meaningful relationships. Scrupulously researched and unsparingly honest, Unhooked is an eye-opening look at how young people cope with the dating challenges they confront every day. Book jacket.

Laura Sessions Stepp is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Parent, Reader's Digest, and Glamour. She has served as a member of the U.S. Surgeon General's Healthy People 2000 panel on adolescence.