They’re loners, they’re rebels and, according to loads of women, they’re sexually irresistible. Join us as we explore the allure of the bad boy.
Some women yearn for a knight in shining armor, and others just like their guys dark and disturbed. Although mysterious men have been considered treacherous throughout the annals of civil society, new research finds that these grim bastards are more likely to get laid by random women than their cheerful counterparts. These are the dudes that your mama warned you about—the classic bad boys, dressed in all black, covered in tattoos and carrying an air of contempt everywhere they go. And while society may look down on these dismal dudes as moral outcasts, they also, it seems, get a lot of gals damp in the panties.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Aarhus University have determined that men who possess extreme levels of dark triad traits (narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) are more desirable to the ladies than, say, that dopey dude from accounting who bids them a good morning every time he passes them on the way to the bathroom. Driving this attraction, researchers contend, is that women—specifically, those with a morbid curiosity (those who get their kicks from watching true crime, etc.)—find these somber sons of bitches fascinating, perhaps wondering, deep down inside, what it would be like to get hammered into the headboard by some dark, dangerous dude who sports more red flags than a Communist convention.
“I almost exclusively fucked narcissists in my 20s,” Jessica of Mesa, Arizona, tells HUSTLERMagazine.com.
