Hardwired against 'hooking up'?

Recently….I read an article in one of those ‘Glamor-esque’ magazines about whether the new culture of ‘hooking up’ is healthy for young women.

The author/researcher seemed to think that this is a very bad thing for young women and cited that women seem to be ‘hard wired’ to be nurturers, nesters and that participating in one-night stands is going against millennia of conditioning.

While I do agree that having a fling, a one-night stand POSSIBLY might do some damage to a young woman’s self esteem, I find it hard to believe that modern women if willing to participate in such trysts, are going to be somehow damaged so profoundly.
I mean after all – weren’t humans also ‘hard-wired’ to be hunters and gatherers? To live in caves?

I agree that sometimes the advances made by women vis-à-vis the sexual revolution might have backfired on us and our daughters. Yet truly I believe young women of today are much better educated and aware of the plethora of choices they have to make – wheras our predecessors choices were rather limited.

In the end I think it always ends up boiling down to personal choice and just what price you are willing to pay for your so-called sexual freedom – because let’s face it – there’s always a price to pay….but making women feel that they relegated to our cave-women-child-bearing way of life because of some out-dated biological imperative seems to reek of limitations. I am not saying you can’t have it all – but I am saying you are most certainly entitled to ‘explore’ BEFORE you decide to (or not) settle down.