With respect to dating a friend's ex, most of us are generally taught it's a cut-and-dry "ABSO-F***ING-LUTELY NOT!" And, generally speaking, sex sensei Dan Savage advises against it as well. But when the contentious topic was applied to life at Rhodes College, a gated liberal arts school with a tiny student population, the "Savage U" conductor and some inquisitive sorority sisters agreed that it's simply unavoidable when you're surrounded by more trees than people.
The sophomore, junior and senior students that spoke with Dan on the quad shared horror stories of the trouble caused by dating, dancing with or even talking to guys that had previously gone out with a friend or just an acquaintance. Students at big schools have the luxury of space and new faces with which to heal post-breakup, they said, while they, themselves, face the constant risk of approaching someone who's already been marked, or even running into their own exes' new pursuits while at the same old party. Both, the sisters lamented, were nearly impossible to avoid.
