12:16 PM
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That definition is grossly outdated, obviously written before the recent onslaught of women, mostly teachers and mostly married, who have been preying on young boys. They could be called lecherettes, I guess, or simply sex-crazed pedophiles but for purposes of this discussion lecherous women will be lumped in with male lechers here. Also included in this study is another sub-class of the classic lecher, namely the male teenie satyr.
Most students aren't avid readers nowadays but it goes without saying that they have heard the rumors of female teachers "hitting on" students. They also know the flip side of that coin, of male teachers molesting students. That has always been far more commonplace and such incidents have also been increasing at an alarming pace. Whether male or female, those teachers have in turn been contributing factors in the mushrooming of sexual indiscretions by America's youth, as if it were "the thing" to do.
Time was when female teachers-we used to call them "lady teachers," but in many cases that adjective is inapplicable today-were matronly relics. Today's female teachers are generally far more attractive than they used to be, and far dumber. The more attractive part is a definite plus but the dumb feature has resulted in repeated instances of female teachers, many reared in the same oversexed culture as the kids they're supposed to be teaching, bedding, and sometimes even wedding, underaged male students.
A WorldNetDaily.com article, "The Big List: Female Teachers with Students," didn't deal with female teachers "being with" students in classrooms or providing them with academic extra-help. It refers to their extra-curricular tutoring in the the nuances of sexual behavior, both off and on campus. The article refers to the phenomenon as a "sexpidemic," which is not a overstatement. (See the link at the bottom of this page.)
Those teachers and other school personnel, all convicted felons, included the very attractive Angela Comer, (age 26 of Kentucky) and two of the most notorious lecherettes: Mary Kay Letourneu, (25 of Washington), who stalked her prey from second grade on and bedded him when he was in sixth grade and Debra LaFave, (25 of Florida), who was spared jail time for her liaisons with a 14 year old boy because she was too attractive for the hoosegow).
Then there were the positively scary Amy Gail Lilley, (36 of Florida), Chrystel Gravlin, (33 of New York), Toni Lynn Woods, (37 of West Virginia), and Meredith Kane, (24 of Kansas) proving that when it comes to scoring, teenagers aren't known for their discretion or taste.
That "Big List" numbers some 160 instances of female rape, sexual abuse, pedophilia, molestation of both underage male and female students, mostly involving teachers with a few involving other school personnel. They were caught in their cars, student homes, their own homes and in school buildings in their escapades with the minors, caught being the operative word since we don't have any idea as to how many are yet undiscovered and the Big List is half a year old.
It's no wonder that teenies have been over-sexualized and it is startling that Americans are still startled at the sexualization of teenagers. After all, their teachers do it so why not join the fun?
The blame can be spread all over the map, from the examples set by teachers to the omnipresence of the internet. It's been estimated that teens spend an average of 31 hours a week on the computer, interacting with peers on social websites, and surfing the net. An average of two hours every week is also spent watching porn, which sure beats reading Great Expectations or Silas Marner but which also tends to seduce them into thinking that all that sweaty copulation seems like pretty rad stuff and worth some experimenting.
Or, blame it on the boob tube and TV shows such as "Sex in the City" and countless others, or blame it on parents, many of whom have given up on the admittedly-daunting task of parenting and instead just let their kids do their thing, or blame it on our schools, on our society as a whole, or on our politicians and sports' heroes who set a social tone of promiscuous behavior.
Cast the blame wherever we will but the bottom line has to be the teens themselves, many of whom have surrendered their bodies and souls to the influences surrounding them, to a perverse licentiousness and lives of abandon rather than devoting their childhood to just being children.
One fun extracurricular activity was the craze seen in Gloucester, Massachusetts where kids were having kids, intentionally, just for the jollies and where Gloucester High School was acting as an enabler if not overtly endorsing adult behavior in teens by maintaining an on-campus nursery for the kids of the kids.
Then there was sexting, the popular practice of (usually) young girls texting suggestive and/or nude pictures of themselves to (usually) young boys who then forward them to their buddies who promptly post them on the internet.
One story from across the Pond is especially telling of how far some teens, fortunately far from all and hopefully not even approximating a majority, have devolved from what used to be a norm.
An old movie, Alfie, posed the question in its theme song, "What's It All About, Alfie?" One British boy, by happenstance named Alfie Patten, seems to have no clue. That Alfie is all of 13 years of age, looks 10, and acts 25; Alfie has just became a daddy: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece
The mommy is a buxomy older "woman" of 15, Chantelle Steadman, and some men's libbers might claim young Alfie was, as the phrase used to go, taken advantage of. Their pictures and the video on that link seem to suggest that's a possibility but pictures, we all know, may be worth a thousand words but may also be deceiving.
The happy, young couple named the new arrival, allegedly the product of a one-time-only act of intercourse, Maisie Roxanne, and they plan to be topnotch parents to her as well as hard working students to prepare themselves for that parenting. Asked if he were prepared to support the baby financially, Alfie responded, "What's financially?"
Wish them luck.
Not that similar events never happen this side of the Atlantic, although none have hit the news lately, but the Alfie-Chantelle-Maisie tale is almost wholesome compared to this excursion into photo voyeurism.
A 17 year old Georgia boy, Curtis Pickard, apparently bored with his schoolwork, decided to spice up his day by taking pictures of his teacher, Mrs. Ellen Hotchkiss. He didn't seek or get permission for the snaps, and doubtfully would have since Curtis used his cell phone to take the pictures under her clothing.
