The unintended consequences of laws addressing sex between teachers and students

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-09-01 01:20

Article here. Takes on the teacher-student sexual relations issue to suggest that gee, as long as it's consensual, it isn't that bad. Makes no mention of the double-standards around male vs. female teachers coloring outside the lines or the uneven power relationship issue, which she seems to minimize. Still, it's an alternate viewpoint. Excerpt:

'As protesters decry the leniency of Rambold’s sentence — he will spend 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales, who committed suicide at age 16 — I find myself troubled for the opposite reason. I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized. While I am not defending Judge G. Todd Baugh’s comments about Morales being “as much in control of the situation” — for which he has appropriately apologized — tarring and feathering him for attempting to articulate the context that informed his sentence will not advance this much-needed dialogue.
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I’ve been a 14-year-old girl, and so have all of my female friends. When it comes to having sex on the brain, teenage boys got nothin’ on us. When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, the sexual boundaries between teachers and students were much fuzzier. Throughout high school, college and law school, I knew students who had sexual relations with teachers. To the best of my knowledge, these situations were all consensual in every honest meaning of the word, even if society would like to embrace the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex. Although some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died.'

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I'm guessing this is just like the domestic violence laws. The unintended consequence has been more and more women being arrested for the crime. Soon we'll see some kind of primary aggressor policy that ensures it's always the man, even the 12 year old ones, that are held responsible for sex.

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Submitted by Kratch on Sun, 2013-09-01 05:30

If same sex schools had been maintained then there would have been far less of these cases.Feminists will not allow
ss schools because it takes away their heavy advantage in the employment of academia.What they didn't bargain on was that the female teachers were worse than the male ones,
although females have always been treated more lightly by the courts.
In the case of the girl who committed suicide,tell me if I am wrong,but it appears to me that she was forced by her mother?to report the male teacher and ,for that reason,her schoolmates shunned her.For this reason she had nobody to turn to.
Tried to comment on the W.P but,because I live in France
they won't let me,how strange,there was I thinking we were best mates-----yesterday.

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Submitted by saracen395 on Sun, 2013-09-01 15:28