After reading the comments on this thread, I wonder how FReepers would've felt if this incident had instead involved a 23-year-old male teacher and a 14-year-old female student. I have a feeling that many of the comments that were posted would've had a much different tone to them.
Glad I kept reading before I posted the exact same thought.
This is OK as long as it is a female teacher and a boy ?
i think most of us would accept that if the student had been female, and the teacher either male or female, significant damage would have been done. i also think that if it had been a male teacher with a male student, significant damage would have been done. i think if it had been a big, mean, ugly female teacher and a young boy, significant damage would have been done.
the thing i don't know is this--if it is a hot, young female teacher and a teenage boy, and if the boy doesn't feel coerced, does it cause damage? maybe it does, but there is at least a possibility that it does not cause serious damage. many of us who were once teenage boys seem to question whether or not it would have really hurt us if this particular teacher had seduced us.