Yeah but Tari you are a much older and wiser person now then some of the teenagers that buy snakes.. And I can tell you that most if not all teenage boys that buy snakes buy them because of the "novelty" of watching it kill and eat.. Now you can certainly dispute this.. but I think it is pretty much the reason.. Remember, I owed the large Boa as a teenager and I also had a King Snake, an Indigo, and a couple of Pythons..
I also don't think there is any dispute that most snakes are purchased by young men and not woman.. So I might have just a tad more experiance in this then you might think... :P