Here's what you said:
None of us know ourselves that well at that age. I made the admittedly snide remarks about "maturity, schmaturity" because the common sense of the oft-stated truism "If I only knew then what I know now" and a statement like yours above cannot co-exist.
Also, as a boy, I can say that speaking for myself, a teacher having sex with me in 6th or 7th grade would not have left me emotionally scarred...Quite the opposite, in fact.
Statements such as yours presume that everything would have gone well with a teacher with obvious mental, emotional, and ethical deficiencies, and that nobody would find out except those who would keep their traps shut.
I will say that based upon Vili Faulaau's testimony and the testimony of his mother and that of the case worker assigned to him that he was not harmed in any appreciable way by the 400+ times he had intercourse with his teacher.
Why did Fualaau (unsuccessfully) sue the school district that hired Letourneau, arguing that it should have "protected" him from her advances?
BTW: 400+ times? Are you sure about that? I didn't know they had contact that regularly. You got a source for that number?
The source for the number of intercourse encounters was derived from Gregg Olsen's "If Loving You is Wrong."
The Faulaau family has attempted to capitalize financially from this fiasco on two notable occasions, the first being the lawsuit, and the second in a book published only in France, translated as "One Crime: Love."
I would submit that how well one knows themselves at what age is largely subjective. I had a sexual relationship with my babysitter at age 11. Admittedly, she was only 16, and the age difference was significantly less pronounced, but I have only fond memories of those evenings. We are still friends to this day, though we never talk about what happened then. Was it wrong? From the standpoint of Christian morality, certainly. Did it leave me scarred? No way!