Not For Nice Girls

This isn’t for nice girls,
He teases me,
quirking an eyebrow.

No it’s not for nice girls
I reply,
Stretching slowly.

Thing is,
I’m so clean-
living, I’ll take
my thrills and trips
where I find them.

Did that feel degrading?
He asks me, after.

No, I smile:
It was fun.

by Roberta Lawson