Growing up, virtually any male going through puberty had fantasies of hooking up with the hot teacher in his school. Not that there was much chance of it happening; the 60's and 70's might have been the era of free love, but it hadn't yet found its way to the classrooms of middle schools and high schools.
Times have changed...mightily.
Nowadays, hardly a month goes by without there being a report about some teacher preying on a teenaged male student or students. Guys my age derisively and only half-jokingly ask where these women were when we were growing up, but in truth this is becoming a huge problem. One of the most recent stories involved a married woman with children who adopted a fifteen-year-old boy solely so he would be in her home for the purposes of sex. In perhaps the most disgusting of the reports, an older woman had sex with a mentally disabled youth.
And people say men are oversexed...
One might think that the women involved in these accounts are the type who can't find a man on their own so they resort to younger boys who are more pliable. From the mug shots that are put online, that isn't the case. Sure, there are some women who are probably not finding a mate of their own age, but a lot of these women are not only married, but they're attractive to varying degrees. Here's one compilation of women who engage in sex with teenagers:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/slideshow/2017/06/29/female-teachers-charged-or-convicted-having-sex-with-students.html#/slide/loryn-Barclay
And here's yet another:
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notorious-teacher-sex-scandals/?ftag=ACQb72972c&vndid=00474a66c55d0c6edfd2589c64ab95a565
There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to the motivation of these women. It's almost a given that older men prey on young girls, sick as that is. Perhaps there's something primal in it, but civilization has not only frowned on that, it's passed laws against it. What civilization and the law seem to have overlooked is that no matter how badly men act, women can act just as poorly.
The fact that women are now making cringe-worthy movies to imitate the likes of The Hangover proves that women can't claim moral superiority as a gender. But it shocks the conscience, at first, when acts such as these are aired. As a civilization, we're not used to women acting with this level of depravity; we almost expect it of men.
The element in this that shocks me isn't that women do it but that married women do it. Perhaps there's something wrong in the marriage, something missing. But some of these women are not only married but have young children. These aren't dowagers with grown children; these are (in some cases good-looking) women in their twenties and thirties who are getting involved with teenagers, boys just years older than the women's oldest children. And in some cases, the woman are getting pregnant by their post-pubescent lovers.
Yes, there are some women in their forties who are also doing this. But the majority, shockingly, are as I described them.
Why not just have an affair with an older man, or a man around their age? Why add statutory rape to the misdeeds of which they'll be accused. I find it hard to believe there are on men of majority age attractive enough to turn the heads of these women.
Or is it just the taboo aspect of it? If that's it, the thrill of the forbidden, why not stick to older men and have an affair?
Most guys would scoff at the notion that these young boys will be scarred by the experience. If that were me, they'd say, I'd be smiling 'til my dying day. And perhaps some are. But for as parental as the laws may be, there's good reason to prohibit sex between adults and minors, one of which is the traumatic effect that such experiences may have on the minors, effects, which, may not manifest themselves for years.
As with cellphones that take pictures, trains that travel nearly 200 mph and cable television that offers thousands of channels, we're in a brave new world, one that Aldous Huxley may not have foreseen.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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