Article: Why men really do prefer nice girls.(includes related poll of men)(Brief Article)

* A lot of women have this strange notion that men prefer bad girls. Maybe it has something to do with all those personal ads you see in the paper where a "SWM seeks down-and-dirty mama to do the wild thing in telephone booths and handicap parking spots." Or maybe it has to do with the number of times you've caught us leering at magazine photos of women wearing leather boots, a sultry sneer ... and not much else.

Okay, so maybe we do like bad girls just a little. But it doesn't take too many real-life letdown for most of us to realize what the dirty magazines don't show: Attempting a relationship with a bad girl is sheer torment.

I speak from ...

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