We both have a lot in common with famous comedy multi-hyphenate Mindy Kaling. We often wonder if everyone is hanging out without us, and we adore romantic comedies. Most importantly, we graduated from college over a decade ago, and some part of us can’t help but wonder: Are young women on campus these days having more fun than we did, personally? (Or would they be, you know, Covid aside.)
To be fair, we have no reason to believe this niggling question was the exact inspiration for Kaling’s delightful (if sometimes a bit didactic) comedy “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” However, watching the show did make us surprisingly wistful for the world of college dating and hookups — an experience that seems much more pleasurable, sex-positive, and thrilling for the central characters than we recall it being for us in the late aughts. It’s a sweetly funny vision of undergrad life, populated by women who might not have everything figured out, but who are at least havi…
