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Guns N’ Roses: Why women love criminals

Woman holding a semi-automatic pistol [Photo: Shutterstock]

While there are women who fall head over heels for the tall, dark and hunky dude with a well-paying job or lucrative business, there are lasses who are turned on by crooks: bank robbers, carjackers, con men, pickpockets, you name it.

Well, love and crime have always been intertwined since Bonnie and Clyde, and even here in Kenya, we’ve had our fair share of women who love criminals. And it even has a psychological term, ‘hybristophilia,’ which describes people who lust after those with criminal records.

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