Lynn Phillips is a Senior Lecturer and the Chief Undergraduate Advisor for the Department of Communication at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination (NYU Press, 2000) is based on a series of extensive interviews with college-aged women at a liberal arts college. Phillips breaks down and highlights alarming cultural discourses that influence the way her participants saw themselves, and negotiated the problematic and contradictory sexual landscape in our society.

In our conversation, Phillips unpacks her original findings and speaks to their current pervasiveness. We also touch on the 2012 documentary film based on Flirting with Danger, which reformulates the findings and incorporates new ones based on Phillips’s current research on hookup culture.