Text messaging is the latest technology for hooking up.
As a college student, I know that tools like AIM, Facebook, and Myspace are becoming easy ways for young people to hook up and have sex. But the New York Times Magazine has an article exploring an avenue I never really considered before: I Want Your Text:
It wouldn’t surprise us, in fact, if the prevalence of texting has dramatically increased the rate of appointment sex in this city. It’s just the right level of intrusiveness: Your target gets the message even in a noisy bar, but unlike a phone call, it won’t wake him up from a snooze in front of The Daily Show. You can successfully express interest, but texting’s short format allows you to maintain an air of aloofness. And text rejection is much easier to get (and give) than struggling through an awkward booty phone call.
“It’s by far the best way to set up a sex date,†says Kate, a 34-year-old designer in the East Village. “No worrying if your voice sounds needy or desperate or neurotic. In texts you can be blunt, erotic, funny—all the things you want to be.â€
