Tragedy of the Commons #2: Play with the Bad Girls, Marry the Virgins? Part 2

So in my last post I talked about the Tragedy of the Commons, a dilemma that arises when everyone grabs with their greedy little fingers without thinking about how they might be screwing each other (and themselves) over in the end.

Without further ado let me connect the dots on that with Mr. Macho-Sexist, the man who wants to sample all the naughty girls in the world, but still take home a good old-fashioned blushing bride.

Yep, everyone is always eager for a ride on the village bicycle, because nobody expects himself to be the one who’d take it home. But as I said, for every man who plays there’s gotta be a girl who plays with him.

Since most of us don’t live in small villages where everybody knows your name, the promiscuous girls can and do disguise themselves as the nice ones and get “recycled” back into the system. Hence the battle of the sexes. “You want an innocent? How innocent do you want me to be?”

So Tom laughs at Dick for taking his former conquest home, while Harry snickers at the fun he’s going to have with Tom’s wife during his upcoming business trip. Everybody loses, and STDs abound. Not exactly a happy ending.

Sadly, the same idea is applicable to men who are less than careful about protection, but run away from women with baggage from previous relationships. Everybody wants the freshest meat off the market, without stopping to think about the cause and effects of the whole business.

My advice? Don’t shit in the dating pool if you plan to marry from it someday. Call it karma, call it math, but remember: while you’re playing and jerking around someone else’s future spouse, the same could be happening to yours.