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In an effort to explore and deconstruct these perceptions, Lisa Wade, PhD, an associate professor of Sociology conducted a study of hook-up culture in colleges across the US, which culminated in her book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. The first was around 10, to 15, years ago, in the agricultural revolution.

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Follow TIMEIdeas An entire generation of parents has spent years panicking about the effects of hookup culture on girls. But what about boys? Wiseman may be familiar to you as the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, her look at the social rivalries of girls on which Tina Fey based the movie Mean Girls. For her new book, Masterminds and Wingmen, she delves into the world of boys. As the mother of two boys, she was eager to make sure that their side of the story was not left out.

During two years of research, she interviewed hundreds of boys across the country — individually, in groups, over the course of extended e-mail correspondences — and their stories are really quite striking. As Wiseman writes, we assume that boys are the perpetrators and beneficiaries of hookup culture — and thus we tend to ignore its effects on them. But those effects, it turns out, can be rather rough.

Boys and young men are much more complicated than our popular culture acknowledges. Join TIME to read the full piece here. And there is little difference between the genders in the age of first intercourse. For every girls in the to age group who commit suicide, boys in the same range kill themselves, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High school is when the suicide rate for boys spikes to four times the rate for girls, whereas in early adolescence it is three times the rate for girls.