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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, this has been going on for a very long time - it has nothing to do with changing attitudes about sex - hilarious someone would mention the 90s...the couple I know like this got together in the 50s...he was the principal, and she was only 16...but they waited until she graduated to make it public...got married and stayed married until he died.

What has changed is that our society has become much less tolerant of statutory rape - mostly with prosecutions of men.  Increasingly the glaring difference in how the public feels about "innocent girls" and "horndog stud boys" has been hard to square with the harsh legal environment.  Basically, what happened before is nobody filed charges or cared, especially if it was a younger boy - he was held up as studly, not a victim.  That is the culture change.

I don't think sexual attraction to post-pubescent humans is weird (I do think it's weird with pre-pubescent children).  However, I think anytime you have an adult - whether or not they are in a position of power/authority (like these teachers) - choosing to have a relationship with someone who is that much less mature, it's a sign of serious issues in the older person.

I was a male teacher; I had cute, sexy and wildly inappropriate female students who I think had crushes on me - when I say wildly inappropriate, I'm thinking of the flirting and the one who tried to pull of my wedding ring (this was in the prehistoric 90s BTW).  It's just not that hard to say no, and honestly: if you need to get your validation from someone like that...you really need a shrink.

But nobody should kid themselves this is some new harbinger of the apocalypse via Sodom & Gommorrah.  This kind of thing has been going on forever.  [/quote]

Great analysis, and I agree. If you look at some of the scandals where there has been a focus on sex between celebrities and underage people, it becomes apparent that having sex with teenagers was much more accepted in the 60s and 70s. The fact that it apparently took some doing to get someone to care about an adult male and an underage female means that it would be almost impossible for someone to get worked up about an adult female and an underage male. But, as the tolerance went down for one, increasingly the tolerance has gone down for the other. [/quote]

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