Hookup culture is a training ground for the expectations of motherhood

Amanda Montei's 'Touched Out' explores the overlaps of motherhood, consent, and misogyny—and it's revelatory.

Amanda Montei, author of “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”

When Amanda Montei was in high school, there was a party and a boy—a shy football player she had a crush on. They ended up alone in a bedroom on a mattress without sheets. “I imagined us falling in love, holding each other close, laughing and talking,” she writes. “But in…