How would you explain the female attraction for dangerous men, especially tortured bad boys?
I believe it’s the idea of taming the untamable. As I recently explained to someone who asked why I’m drawn to bad boy characters. I read to experience that which takes me into an exciting, different place. It’s the escapism. What is more exciting and emotionally fulfilling? Teaching a kitten to use the litter box, or master a savage lion so he eventually purrs at your touch and eats out of your hand. I use to breed Arabian horses. While I enjoyed riding my sweet gelding, spending hours grooming him, at the end of the day it wasn’t those memories that occupied my thoughts and caused me to smile in satisfaction. It was the memory of my standing outside my stallion’s stall, watching him snort and pace and stomp, his nostrils flaring and his eyes flashing as he drank in the scent of the mares. It was that rush of adrenaline I experienced as I stepped into that stall with him, crooned to him, stroked him until he lowered his head and nuzzled me–all while his body continued to quiver with
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