Author Archives: Denise Nilan

Sometimes you date someone who you think is totally awesome, but you could be wrong. As someone who has dated a loser, I admit, in the excitement of texting, hooking-up and the general confusion of it all, it is easy to make a mistake. You may accidentally give someone an unworthy amount of attention. Or […]

When I was a naive freshman I started dating an older man, a wise and mature sophomore. There was something about his Quicksilver attire and hiked up socks that made him relatable to my post high school years. A month went by and there were cute texts and dates. I thought things were really going […]

I was with a group of guy friends the other night and, while they were enjoying cigars and whiskey, I felt the need to contribute some sort of masculine sentiment. So I began to tell a story a friend of mine had told me at the gym earlier that day.

I’ll call my friend Tom for the sake of his privacy and future love life.

I have a love-hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. I love the overpriced flowers that everyone complains about. I love the chocolates because it’s a sign that all of those New Year’s resolutions have been forgotten, and the excuse to wear pastels in the winter, but mostly, I love to love.

Something happened in college. All of a sudden the classic baseball-sex analogy of rounding the bases no longer applied. What ever happened to the standard kissing, hand stimulation, oral and sex pattern we all were familiar with?

Well, in college, the game changed.

‘”Hooking-up” is the most confusing word to ever grace Cal Poly’s campus. To most people it means kissing, to others it means a little more than that and to some it means sex. To confuse matters more, hooking-up can also be some sort of dating term, like a precursor to an official boyfriend-girlfriend title.