The Lure of the Bad Boy

I thank God for the appeal women have for dating bad boys. Otherwise I could never have hoped to snag, tag and bag a woman so manifestly out of my league as my wife.

In the Globe and Mail, columnist David Eddie breaks down the appeal of dating "bad boys".

It’s a powerful force, is it not, ladies? It hai-karate-chops your higher functions; disables your ratiocinative powers like a cat-burglar disarms an alarm; and hot-wires your libido.

You know if you get together with the bad boy – or back together with him – you’re probably making a mistake: that he will almost certainly disappoint you in the future as he has in the past.

But you cannot help yourself. You are drawn into his vortex against your will.

To be honest, I thank God for this phenomenon every day. Otherwise I could never have hoped to snag, tag and bag a woman so manifestly out of my league as my wife, Pam.

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