Word: sexualism
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...AUGUST 2005, MCMINNVILLE, TENN.: Elementary-school phys-ed teacher Pamela Rogers, 28--another bombshell blond--received a nine-month jail sentence in a plea deal, plus eight years' probation, for four counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. She had a 2 1/2-month relationship with a student...
...know whether more female teachers are having relationships with young male students or whether more are simply being reported. But as these cases make clear, inappropriate teacher-pupil relationships are not rare. According to Charol Shakeshaft, a professor of foundations, leadership and policy studies at Hofstra University, sexual misconduct is the top reason teaching licenses are revoked. "About 10% of kids report that sometime during K to 12, they have been the target of some form of educator sexual misconduct, and about 7% report physical sexual misconduct," she says. "About one-third of those cases are female teachers to male...
Letourneau fits that model. She has said she fell in love with Fualaau while working with him on a sixth-grade art project when he was 12 and claims that after a while a sexual relationship just seemed "natural." In a phone call recorded by police, Flannigan's student-lover asked the teacher why she had chosen to have sex with him. She reportedly answered, "I don't know why it happened. I don't know why I love you so much...
...nearly every case of female-teacher sexual abuse, the relationship is discovered by a third party. Boys often tell friends of their involvement with the teacher, but they generally don't see themselves as victims and are therefore unlikely to report abuse to parents or authorities. In fact, unlike female victims, they may be envied or held in higher esteem by their peers...
...Society is very concerned about protecting the virginity of girls but not so much with boys," explains Kliman. "There has been a tradition in many societies of women initiating boys into a sexual relationship or where boys are sent off to have sex with a prostitute, and that's sometimes regarded as being helpful to shy and sexually unassertive boys...