Episode 007: Hookups & Consent
Today’s episode deep dives into hookups and consent with Dr. Aditi Paul. We hope to dispel commonly held myths about hookup culture. We’ll also discuss how sex scripts used in TV and movies affect Gen Z’s sexual behaviors and influence how we think about consent.
In this episode, you will be able to:
Explore the Emotions and Feeling Wheel to deepen self-awareness and improve emotional intelligence.
Understand the importance of Consent in hookup culture to foster respectful and consensual relationships.
Learn essential strategies for Sexual Assault Prevention and setting personal boundaries in relationships.
Discover the power of Female Sexuality and Empowerment in shaping fulfilling and respectful connections.
Gain insights into Understanding and Navigating Gen Z Relationships to enhance communication and understanding in modern dating.
CW: This episode will have discussions around sex and sexual assault.
Music: Deppisch
Design: Perpetualnotion.ca
Mixing/ Mastering: Tony Bao
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Aditi Paul, PhD
Aditi Paul is a professor and mixed-methods researcher based in New York City.
She uses her multidisciplinary background in computer science and communication studies to examine the impact of using human-centered technologies like social networking sites and online dating services.
Aditi’s research has been published in top academic journals and has been featured in prominent media outlets such as The Washington Post, Women’s Health, The Telegraph UK, Huffington Post, NBCNews.
Her new book, "The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture: Dating Apps, Hookup Scripts, and Sexual Outcomes," is out on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, & Walmart.
FURTHER RESOURCES
Peggy Orenstein’s books Boys & Sex and Girls & Sex
Sexual Citizens by Jennifer S. Hirsh and Shamus Khan
This episode’s AWESOME things:
Sarah loves the podcast “Sounds like a cult.” a podcast that analyzes a different zeitgeisty group every week to try and answer the big question: This group sounds like a cult, but is it really? Click here to find out more on their website.
Heather is super jazzed about THE FEELINGS WHEEL: In her experience as a psychotherapist, Gloria Wilcox found that people seemed to find themselves at a loss for words when describing how they feel.
Inspired by Joseph Zinker's ideas of conceiving the therapist as an artist (Zinker, 1978), and Robert Plutchik's comparison of emotions to colors (Plutchik's 1980), Wilcox set out to design the feelings wheel using the four basic emotions: scared, sad, mad and glad. To keep things balance between comfortable and uncomfortable emotions, she expanded "glad" into three emotions: joyful, powerful, and peaceful.
The feeling wheel is composed of an inner circle with six segments corresponding to six primary feelings: mad, sad, scared, joyful, powerful, and peaceful. It has two outer concentric circles describing secondary feelings that relate to the primary ones, painted in lighter shades than their counterparts.
As a good accompaniment to The Feelings Wheel, Sarah suggested to read Brene Brown’s Atlas to the Heart.
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