Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's b/c women get light sentences for this sort of crimes?

Many people have noted the stark difference in the sentences male and female sex offenders receive. Female offenders tend to walk away with probation, time served, or very low jail sentences compared to male offenders. Some have denied this bias, others have ignored, and others have rationalized it as extension of “Patriarchy.”

Ironically, members of the latter group recently published a study about that issue. The study Sex-Based Sentencing: Sentencing Discrepancies Between Male and Female Sex Offenders published in Feminist Criminology confirms that female offenders do indeed receive lesser sentences than male offenders do.

https://toysoldier.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/feminist-researchers-find-female-sex-offenders-get-slaps-on-the-wrist/

It's hard to see these young men as being abused -- especially with some of these attractive young teachers -- but we seem to love victim stories these days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's hard to see these young men as being abused -- especially with some of these attractive young teachers -- but we seem to love victim stories these days.

Victim-blame much?

He enjoyed it? He wanted it? He had it coming? One can only imagine the screams of rage in DCUM if anyone applied this logic to a female rape victim.

Time to start teaching "attractive young teachers" not to rape.

Anonymous wrote:
It's hard to see these young men as being abused -- especially with some of these attractive young teachers -- but we seem to love victim stories these days.

Anonymous wrote:
It's hard to see these young men as being abused -- especially with some of these attractive young teachers -- but we seem to love victim stories these days.

Many people have noted the stark difference in the sentences male and female sex offenders receive. Female offenders tend to walk away with probation, time served, or very low jail sentences compared to male offenders. Some have denied this bias, others have ignored, and others have rationalized it as extension of “Patriarchy.”

Ironically, members of the latter group recently published a study about that issue. The study Sex-Based Sentencing: Sentencing Discrepancies Between Male and Female Sex Offenders published in Feminist Criminology confirms that female offenders do indeed receive lesser sentences than male offenders do.

“Many people mistakenly believe that harassment is limited to females,” says Roberta Chinsky Matuson, a human resource expert. “The truth is that this type of experience is just as damaging to men.”
While the number of sexual harassment cases overall has consistently declined in the past few years, “sexual harassment filings by men have consistently increased, doubling over 15 years,” says David Grinberg, a spokesman for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC.

Anonymous wrote: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.