[HitmanLV]

I must not have made myself clear, I'm sorry. The argument I presented doesn't negate anything:

The adult male who has sex with a 14 year-old girl both abused his authority and raped the girl.

The adult female who has sex with a 14 year old boy abused her authority and maybe some kind of assault.

They clearly both abused their power - that has to do with their role as teachers, now whether they are male or female. I have no idea what was confusing or ambiguous about that, and I don't disagree. I just don't think a female violating a male's sexuality in this context is rape, comparable to a male violating a female's sexuality in this context.

It's not unfair discrimination: the public policy concerns are different. Males just have different responsibilities because of the public policy reasons I mentioned.. That's not to say females have no responsibility, of course.

[InsureAmerica]

If rape is defined as intercourse between two non-consenting parties, then does it matter what the threat or intimidation was to force the victim into the act?

If not, then there should not be a male/female difference.
I am not saying women and men should be treated the same in all matters, they should not. What if the woman raping the boy used blackmail or something similar to enforce the act, would that be different than a male raping a female using the same type of coercion, blackmail? Then we can leave out the physical differences that otherwise would play into a forced rape, where the male because of superior physical strenth needs no other means....

[ccwoman]

I asked my husband his opinion on this and he claims its not a double standard just the "male" standard.

He says that if our son had a chance to have sex with that good looking of a teacher at 14, He would be giving our son high fives!!!
on the other hand, if a good looking male teacher had sex with daughter at 14 he would, "kill the sonvabitch"
so see the double standard stand inside or outside of court.