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Well-said overall. Just one point I would like to make: the USA (and the Anglosphere more generally) does NOT actually have a "hookup culture", but rather a culture of negativity towards sex and relationships more generally. And of course, we have neoliberalism (aka capitalism on steroids and crack) which has tainted literally everything it touches, including dating and sex. For an *actual* hookup culture, see Iceland, or its somewhat milder versions in the other Nordic countries, the Netherlands, and even Brazil to some extent, the latter being arguably the most frankly erotic culture on Earth right now. In the aforementioned countries, the sexual revolution actually went more or less to completion, while in the Anglosphere and especially the USA, since the 1980s it had stalled and gotten stuck in perpetual limbo and purgatory, which we euphemistically call the "culture wars".

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