ROMP IN THE RAW
Today’s contributor learns sex with bad boys yields negative results
I am attracted to bad boys. So when I ran into the notorious bad boy from my high school while I was in college, I couldn’t help myself. We started seeing each other a few times a week, but we never went out on dates. We would just have sex and he would leave. I was actually happy with the way things were going because I didn’t really want to date a guy from my high school, especially an unemployed college dropout — but I could certainly still have sex with him.
My friends found out about our little fling and immediately voiced their concerns. “I hear he has sex with prostitutes,” “You better be using protection,” and more importantly, “Did he get tested?” Now, I know the risks of having unprotected sex, but I naively trusted this guy. I figured that if he had something he would tell me—because that’s what any upstanding guy would do, right? I obviously missed the vocabulary lesson on upstanding. After about a month of hooking up, he left me high and dry. He wouldn’t return my phone calls or visit me anymore. It was like he fell off the face of the earth.