Straight Edge Dating

Even if cultural pessimists think we're all smartphone zombies, shuffling from one Tinder date to the next, there are still members of Generation Y who are consciously denying what they regard as the excesses of modern life. The straight edge subculture began as a reaction to the self-destructive behaviour associated with punk in the early s. Early straight edgers wanted to use the liberating, emancipatory potential of punk and hardcore to fight for a better world with clarity of mind. Many also rejected promiscuity because they saw treating others as sex objects as inhumane and misanthropic. The movement chose an X on the back of the hand as its trademark, taken from the X that minors would be given when entering American clubs to prevent them from being served alcohol.

Dennis from Austin Texas. No tattoos, never drank anything smoked anything in my entire life. Never will. Lookin for new friends. Hello female sXe vegetarian here. Lives in Vancouver, CA. Facebook: Kise Ghastin.

When I was a young and impressionable UCLA student, I fell for a guy named Chuck who was in a straight-edge punk band and worked in a bookshop. He was handsome, he lived in a dirty house with some other boys in bands and best of all, I thought, he was straight-edge. Unfortunately, during the course of our relationship, I learned that not everything Chuck said was true.

MY wife isn't edge. And we get along great. She at first thought it was weird that I was edge and vegitarian which she is too now But she was cool with it. She said she had never dated a guy who didn't smoke and drink. She understands how much it means to me.