Pressured to Play
Many young men feel they gain respect by winning girls and moving on
By Paris Porter
Back in the spring I was listening to my cousin’s phone conversation with a girl who just told him that she was pregnant by him. Five minutes later, he was on MySpace trying to get a number from another girl.
This got me to thinking, why do so many young men like me and my cousin feel they’ve go to be players and have a lot of girls? And what about the consequences?
Kenny, a 17-year-old senior at Johnson High School in St. Paul, has a steady girlfriend. Still, he finds it easy to get caught up in a player mentality.
“It’s a game, you just gotta play it right,” he said. “It’s like a game to have and hit the most girls without them knowing.” Read more >>
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