re: Do women really like bad boys?

Just like guys like women that have tats and smokes

The trashier the better

Humans developed a successful mating strategy over hundreds of thousands of years before they became civilized: women were attracted to strong, aggressive males that would protect them and their children, and men were attracted to slutty women who frick. This basic strategy ensured the proliferation and survival of the species.

The past 3000 years (or less) of more "civilized" relationships has a hard time competing with the hundreds of thousands of years of mating impulses in our hindbrains. The last 100 years of feminism doesn't do much, either.

No

Women like confidence and bad boys tend to be confident

They see it as the guy knows what he wants and does it/takes it and they believe they can “fix” the bad part. Usually broken or trashy women do this

You can be a good guy and be confident and get good women.

Women just don’t like meek/insecure men or men who aren’t trying to aggressively do better in life/succeed.

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Your wife married you because you’re safe and stable, not because you moisten her panties.

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I have buddy who’s a sex therapist (studied under Masters & Johnson), and he once told me that women are genetically hardwired to seek out security in a potential mate.

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Idk, I kinda see it with the same logic with men. Women get passed up all the time by men who pick up the sluttiest looking girls

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While I love my wife and I’m glad I found her when I did, I often think back to the women I passed up in my mid 20s or ones I just had a fling with and dropped because I wanted to play the field. There were a lot of good ones and I feel stupid for being the way I was

The bad boy with the orthopedic back pillow in his ride gets all the women

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It’s binary. I know everyone on the OT thinks they meet both criteria, but they don’t. Your wife married you because you’re safe and stable, not because you moisten her panties.

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Found the 45 year old single guy still frequenting the bar scene.

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Or do they just think they do? Seems like they get with the bad boy, he ends up treating her like shite, and then she wonders why. Then, just repeats the same trend....

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Women like men with “alpha”characteristics - muscular physique, assertiveness, confidence, outcome independence. “Nice guys” label this as “bad boys.”

Many guys nowadays have red flags because we collectively have the emotional maturity of a toddler. That’s why their “bad boy” relationships don’t work out. Has nothing to do with the things they’re inherently attracted to.