she shoots, she ... rebounds

so ... the question of the hour in my world is: what is the deal with rebounds? i mean, maybe i've been on a perpetual rebound-spree since the tender age of ... 15 or so. and are they bad? quite possibly it all started with that situation familiar to every girl: the guy-in-high-school-who's-one-of-your-bff's-and-he's-in-love-with-you-and-you-don't-really-get-it-and-you-go-out-with-a-loser-and-that-bff-stops-being-your-friend-because-he-doesn't-support-you-and-then-you-finally-figure-out-that-you-love-him-and-it's-too-late. is it really all a ripple effect from that? it's a big fat mystery to me ... but they can't ALL have been rebounds, could they?!

another question: at the risk of making myself sound like a dirt (which i am definitively NOT), during the 'rebound' stage of one's life, is it kosher to become a make-out-bandit?