All right, let's set the record completely straight here. There's an old saying, as bunnerrabb is quite familiar with I am sure, that when a girl is "Old enough to bleed, she's old enough to breed."
As nature goes, this is completely true and time-tested. As society goes, this is a fact of life and we try really, really hard to pretend that young girls and boys possess no sexuality. I truly , truly believe that kids should not have sex at such a young age, and even more so that adults should not sexually take advantage of these children, especially when they are in the throes of hormonal overload.
At the same time, however, what gave society the right to draw that line? This thread was created as a lark, and I really would want to bang a hot teacher when I was 13, but it IS the wrong thing for that teacher to do. But it got me thinking that maybe we really need to revamp the ways we deal with teenage and adolescent sexuality. If we can somehow accept it and nurture it without exploiting it and actually making (or letting) kids have sex, then maybe there won't be such issues in the future. God knows that as kids we all snuck looks at tittie movies and penis magazines and Skinemax dance-fucking. There is obviously something there that we as a society are failing to address.
Choad is right that children should not be taken advantage of. And in his position, there is not much room for any other stance. I agree with it myself.
But as for the double-standard, here is why it is worse for an older male teacher to seduce a younger female student:
Rape. Rape is classically and statistically a crime by males against females, unless it is prison, and then all bets are off. Males have a statistical tendency to take advantage of females in a sexual sense. Rufies, date rape, and all such similar crimes are usually perpetrated by men against women. A male teacher having sex with a female student is worse because, in our minds, that male definitely took advantage of that female student. Have we not heard this story many times before? The fact that on average females get raped by males more than any other variation of gender-rape, makes it more horrible and easier to believe when a male teacher has sex with a female. Men take advantage of women sexually.
That's not to say that women do not do the same, at all. But men are less likely to realize they've been taken advantage of, and nine times out of ten, they think they're the ones who took the advantage.
It's fucked-up, but it's true.
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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.