Paul Eastwick

they're going to get to know you and then they're going to advocate for you to like their friends or like their friends of friends.

Like sometimes the connections can be a little distant.

But that's why you like start with the mixed friend group and then things go out from there.

I don't know when was the last time you watched the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Yeah.

But that's exactly what's happening in that movie.

There's this core group of mixed gender friends.

They're not exactly dating each other, but they are like branching.

And as they branch, it's like people get pulled together.

I think it's really a perfect demonstration of this idea.

I think a lot of times what people are doing, yeah, there's a tendency to look at hookup culture and be like, oh, this is terrible.

But I think a lot of times, again, when it's perfectly consensual, this is people working it out, trying to work out how they feel about each other.

Oftentimes, people don't know how they feel.

They hook up.

And then if it's good, then they're like, let's do that again.

And if it's not good, they think like maybe one more time or maybe not.

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

So the reduction in inhibitions is the thing that gets over the initial concerns.

I mean, I do think this is why especially young folks are more likely to do that.