The view from the recliner: “Is Casual Sex Problematic?”

AllSides puts three opinion pieces side by side: one from the right, one from the left, and one they call center. All three are about whether hooking up is bad for people. Here's how it reads to me. From the Right: Emily JashinskyHer point is that hookup culture is a sweet deal for guys and a raw deal for a lot of women. Plenty of women are still hoping a fling turns into something real, and the guys know it. She puts some of the blame on Alex Cooper of the Call Her Daddy podcast, for telling young women they can and should have sex the way men do. Her line is that, on average, women just don't experience casual sex the same way. My take: Most guys my age have seen some version of this. A buddy who was happy to keep it casual while the woman clearly wanted more. It's not every case, but it's not made up either. Calling it "predatory" when everyone's a consenting adult feels like a stretch, though. It also kind of treats the women like they can't make their own calls. From the Left:…