A Gentleman and a Sadist

The false dichotomy of good guys and bad guys

Maggie Haukka
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readMay 8, 2019

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He liked it rough, he said, and he liked to be the aggressor.

This surprised me, because he seemed so gentle, so soft-spoken. And it scared me, because I was less than six months out of an abusive marriage and still afraid of men in general. He may as well have told me he liked to screw goats or had a rap sheet…

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