Readers React: Nothing casual about sex

Jonathan Zimmerman is on point: The so-called hookup culture places enormous peer pressure on kids to be casual about sexuality and remain unattached (“Sexual assault on campus and the curse of the hookup culture,” Opinion, May 7). That is terrible advice.

The results of the last 50 years are in, and the attitudes of the 1960s and ‘70s have failed. Parents and schools must find ways to teach a constructive alternative.

To be sure, healthy people may have several relationships over a lifetime, but we need to connect with mutual respect, allow meaningful emotion to emerge, be compassionate at all times, and not just use someone else’s body for gratification. It would likely be difficult to objectify, emotionally reject or, worst of all, sexually assault someone you already knew intimately and truly cared for.

Let’s get busy. We definitely don’t need yet another generation of lonely, depressed narcissists.

Harry Shannon

Studio City