What we need to do is create new boundaries, devise better guideposts, and enforce new mores for our technological age
Whether one laments or praises courtship's decline, it is clear that we have yet to locate a successful replacement for it - evidently it is not as simple as hustling the aging coquette out the door to make way for the vigorous debutante. On the contrary, our current courting practices - if they can be called that - yield an increasing number of those aging coquettes, as well as scores of unsettled bachelors. On college campuses, young men and women have long since ceased formally dating and instead participate in a “hooking up” culture that favors the sexually promiscuous and emotionally disinterested while punishing those intent on commitment.