# Have you ever done anything terribly stupid for romantic love (or simple lust)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-anything-terribly-stupid-for-romantic-love-or-simple-lust/634151 "2012-09-09T01:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-anything-terribly-stupid-for-romantic-love-or-simple-lust/634151/21 "2012-09-10T16:04:08Z")

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I have been a victim of Stupid Woman Syndrome more times than I like to admit, but derive some small comfort from the fact that most of my friends have also done stupid, expensive, dangerous things for love/lust. I am a bit suspicous of the women I know (only a very few) who haven’t done so. Usually they have led very narrow, sheltered lives and are exceedingly judgmental toward us “mere mortals.”

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-anything-terribly-stupid-for-romantic-love-or-simple-lust/634151/22 "2012-09-10T16:20:20Z")

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> [@olivesmarch4th](#):
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> The stupidest thing that comes to mind is taking off my clothes in my car while parked after hours in the park. I was 17. And yeah, we got caught by the police.

I got caught. I was 20, though. We got caught by the police and thoroughly humiliated. I will never, ever consider sex in a car again because of this.

But as for stupid stuff, I can’t go one higher than having sex without birth control. More than once, no less. Yeah. Not doing that ever again, either.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-anything-terribly-stupid-for-romantic-love-or-simple-lust/634151/23 "2012-09-10T17:22:19Z")

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One late night, back in the early 80s, a guy gave me a BJ right on a busy NYC corner. Not near the building, but right out by the curb, with cars and pedestrians going by.

He was drunk, but I was not. And he was someone I had wanted for a long time, so I could hardly refuse him, right? Definitely stupid, based on nothing but lust.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-anything-terribly-stupid-for-romantic-love-or-simple-lust/634151/24 "2012-09-10T17:37:32Z")

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I invited a girl to be my roomate in grad school out of lust. It ended badly because we both behaved badly.

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