# Mary Kay Letourneau, the school teacher of our boyhood dreams, on the streets again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-kay-letourneau-the-school-teacher-of-our-boyhood-dreams-on-the-streets-again/258359 "2004-08-04T21:56:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 61
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-kay-letourneau-the-school-teacher-of-our-boyhood-dreams-on-the-streets-again/258359/61 "2004-08-06T21:36:28Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > So, Miz, you think she’s kind of like Humbert Humbert? Huh? > > See, I’ve always had this thing with Lolita. Delores isn’t innocent. She is young. She is a child. She can not legally consent to sex. But she isn’t innocent. She seems to me to be fully aware of what she is doing - even as society absolves her of responsibility. > > Humbert is wrong. But he happens to be the wrong guy in the wrong place with the wrong girl. He is also not innocent. And as an adult responsible. However, I doubt he would have seduced Lolita if she wasn’t busy seducing him. He doesn’t seem preditory to me. (That ass Dolly winds up with near the end of the book - he’s a preditory child molestor). But much more sympathetic than the “Humbert the child molester” theory. > > I have some sympathy for Ms. Letourneau - perhaps she isn’t preditory. But she should have known better. And she should have kept herself under control. That was her responsibility. And that is the law. Delores, Dolly, Humbert–perhaps they were characters in the _Lolita_ story? I saw the movie so long ago that I don’t remember it well enough to discuss it any more. I think I read the book a couple decades ago too. I also had some sympathy for Ms. Letourneau after seeing the (slanted? biased?) movie, in which she had not seemed predatory. That’s all I was saying. You said it better! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-kay-letourneau-the-school-teacher-of-our-boyhood-dreams-on-the-streets-again/258359)._