Why are there laws against paedophilia?

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As a teacher she should have higher standards(we hope) and not dally with the students.I bet there would have been a big uproar if that had been a female student with her.But it does seem unfair that the boy will have bragging rights and she has a record.But a man would have been charged with the crime so in all fairness so should she.If my son had been seduced by a teacher I'd be mad,I can't speak for him.The school he went to had several very lovely ladies teaching and the boys did think they were hot,but at that age boys are vulnerable too,all those raging hormones.I think the real danger would be they would be overwhelmed by what is most likely their first sexual encounter and become too attached to the older woman.They should be clumsily groping with people their own age,with birth control of course.

that should be incorporated as a conditional law for prosecution, i hate the fact that untold numbers of people is punished for something no one actually felt anything from, perhaps with the exception of the cop or judge who felt personally butthurt anyone would break their law.

I do. The only crime she committed was allowing herself to be manipulated by a teenager.

It happens to parents of teenagers all the time. Watch an episode or two of Dr. Phil and you'll see exactly what I mean.

I question the maturity of an inexperienced teacher. My first job I was fresh out of college with a master's degree (not in education, but in a relevant field of study. I got my teaching creds as an undergrad). The only job I could get was basically a ghetto middle school job. Yes, I made probably more than my fair share of mistakes because of my inexperience and unsuitability (at the time) for the job. The kids handed me my @$$ on a daily basis and administration was no help at all.

Now, if that's me teaching grades 5-8, I don't even want to think about what it's like being a FEMALE teacher the same age I was then trying to teach high school jr./sr. classes and the only guy in town who shows interest in my is some kid football player who relentlessly flirts with me every single day.

I understand the nature of statutory rape laws, but there has to be some accountability on the part of the students. Trying to flirt with a teacher is seriously inappropriate behavior for a student, and because of the damage it can do to a teacher's career, there should be severe penalties imposed on kids who attempt it. It should be documented just like all discipline referrals, and a teacher ought to be able to sue students who try it for harassment. I don't see anything being done to protect the teachers from the students.

Of course, if the teacher doesn't take steps to stop the behavior, then sure, it's the teacher's fault. I don't mean to sound like I approve the behavior, because I don't. But pretending the students who perpetrate these hideous schemes are perfect little angels is offensive to me.

I'm sorry, but I beg to differ. The law is NOT a moral authority, it is a coercive authority. One of its functions is to utilize the states power to enforce society's rule; including rules about sexual behavior.There is a difference between violating societies rules and violating someones will regarding what is done to their own body. And underage boy(or girl) most certainly CAN give permission to an adult woman to have sex with him, but the law does not recognize it.

Is morality or ethics a guide for what laws should be passed?

ruveyn

Sometimes it is but sometimes it is not.

They got "licks?" Well, as long as the aren't being hit, I guess.

All the same, telling boys to bend over so that he can lick them does seem a tad gross.

Your principal was most certainly a homogluteophile.

Among other social primates, subordinate troop members presenting their rumps to the alpha male also serves to foster social cohesion.

Maybe Mr. G's methods did foster social cohesion as none of us engaged in another primate ritual,the throwing of feces on weaker member of the troop We did throw food at each other,but not when he was around.Obviously he was the alpha male.Don't know if he was into boy bottoms but anything is possible and usually more depraved than we want to admit.

I still think we should toss all the child molestors in a lake of boiling hot lava! This is what it would look like the bag of trash representing the pedophile tossed into the lake of lava![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8[/youtube]

Another example of "Boys will be Boys"

http://news.yahoo.com/fantasy-slut-leag ... ories.html

A high school where the boys have a "Fantasy Slut League" made up of girl students.

I don't care if "boys will be boys" or if girls are behaving themselves provocatively.

Those factors are entirely irrelevant to the legal principle that teachers, clergy, youth leaders, counsellors, physicians, nurses, and all manner of other people in the community are in positions of trust. And so we are subject to different--and more stringent--rules. We know what the rules are when we sign on to perform the jobs that we do, and we know the consequences for violating those rules.

If we deviate from those rules, the law should deal with us more harshly than others so that the trust that is reposed in the rest of us who have not deviated from the rules is maintained. (Dear Pope Benedict--you might want to read the preceding sentence a few times.)

Which gives a boy who lays a hot teacher extra bragging rights.

This is BS. Underage women sometimes agree to participate in sexual relationships with adult men; if she's 14 and he's 25, it's still statutory rape whether she has an orgasm or not. The entire point is that an adult has so much more experience than a child and can be coercive without the child even realizing it.

Well, of course, a girl whose hymen is ruptured or who becomes pregnant loses value on the marriage market.

But, a 16 year old boy, with a hot high school teacher, is nothing but huge bragging rights as far as the boy is concerned.