Demystifying Social Deviance (Stuart L. Hills)
"I tend to think that the primary target of my striving for deviance is possibly the sterility and blandness of the life I had always been exposed to. I wanted to feel! I wanted to play in the dirt. I wanted to transgress those lily-white norms, break those rules designated to make me a good little Doris Day. And when the first transgression was followed not by the wrath of God but with the feeling of being alive, and free, and different, that I had never known before, then I guess after that, all rules and norms lost their meaning and power over me...I felt superior, so wicked, so unique...I thought I had found the most deviant act possible. I was drawn to it because it set us apart from, and above, everyone...I was irresistibly attracted to and proud of the deviance and anti-sociability of the act...the 'badness' was why I did not hesitate to do it."-1980: 22 year-old female university senior
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