In last week's Sexual Politics column about how a guy choking his girlfriend with his dreadlocks shouldn't be a punchline, I made this flippant joke: "It's tempting to laugh at this news because, of ...

Talk about dreadlocks, and the first thing that comes to mind is Rastafarians and Bob Marley. For most people, however, they also evoke images of a bunch of rowdy, dirty and smelly marijuana smokers.