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Women love bad boys for two reasons. Changing a bad boy is the women's equivalent to men going for married women, or cheating on their partners- everyone loves a challenge.
Women fall for bad boys because they're charming, and usually have legions of other women falling at their feet (there's the challenge thing again). Bad boys come with the best chat up lines, and the allure of a mysterious background. Women love a man that will fight for them, and, or over them- and there's no boyfriend like the bad boy for that. If you see a bad boy and his girlfriend (or one of them) out in public, the bad boy will be leering round a bar for anyone who might be checking out his woman, or anyone who might owe him money/look at him funny/fancy a fight. When the fight is in full swing (the bad boy will be winning, he's had practice), the aforementioned girlfriend will most probably be screaming and making a pathetic attempt to stop the fight. But even more probably, she will be loving it.

Unfortunately for women, the bad boy attraction will wear off eventually, and taking him out and showing him off in clubs will begin to wear rather thin. You'll probably end up wishing you could snuggle up next to him in front of the television, or have a chinese takeaway and an early night. That's a little like buying a mouse for a pet because they're small and cute, and then putting a bit of string round its neck and trying to take it for a walk- you simply can't have both.
And that is where the bad boy falls very very short. It's in his nature to disappear until the early hours of the morning without explanation- and although the way he would never say where he's been was mysterious and charming when you first met, after a few months it's downright suspicious and frustrating. The bad boy will come home with a black eye and lipstick on his collar, and will offer no justification as to the origin of either.
I tried changing a bad boy once, and he cheated on me with my best friend and then ran off with HIS best friend's girlfriend. I shouldn't have really expected anything less.
The moral of the story is- a bad boy is fine for a fling, but if you can't make them into husbands. That's what the nice boys are for.

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