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Analysis Of Boys On The Side By Hannah Rosin

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The article Boys on the Side by Hanna Rosin discusses the “hookup” culture that has largely replaced dating. Young women are behaving like frat boys, and no one is guarding the virtues of honor, chivalry, and everlasting love (Rosin 38). Girl land a book by Caitlin Flanagan discusses sexual culture and how in earlier times, fathers protect their daughter’s innocence and girls understood their roles to also protect themselves. The central argument is that women have effectively been duped by a sexual revolution that persuaded them to trade away the protections of and from young men (Rosin 38). However, times are changing due to the unbelievable gains women have lately made and more important, it forgets how much those gains on sexual

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