# What's so great about middle/high school boys that makes the sex worth it for teachers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086 "2019-06-26T05:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/21 "2019-06-27T12:05:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > For centuries, men have been blaming their sexcapades on women (She was wearing a tight skirt, walking alone after dark, she smiled at me, etc. etc.). Now women have gotten into the game, so let’s blame their partners: He wears tight jeans. He said no, but his eyes said yes. And people act horrified. > > Talk about your double standards. Ummm, no. \*Plenty \*of people - men and women - are horrified at the notion that females “ask for it”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/22 "2019-06-27T13:27:10Z")
Maybe now. But historically rape has been an underreported, underprosecuted, and totally blamed on the victim occurance. Like I posted, any excuse would do. She was walking alone after dark. She was wearing tight clothes. She was walking in a bad neighborhood. It’s not like she was a virgin. So she was raped. It’s not like she was physically hurt Hey, boys will be boys. For decades newspapers would not even print stories of rape. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/23 "2019-06-27T13:42:46Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Sounds like mostly a case of “man bites dog.” If a male teacher has an affair with student girls, that’s wrong, but it’s considered “wrong within expected wrongdoing parameters.” Whereas if a female teacher has an affair with student boys, that’s so unusual and rare that it becomes headline worthy. I tend to wonder if it’s a bit more common than we think. My daughter’s elementary school (K-8) just had a teacher kicked out for inappropriate behavior with one of her male students, and in high school, my friend’s younger brothers was having an affair with his teacher (which he was in high school; I think about 16-17 at the time). I admit, mine is probably somewhat an anomalous experience, but male high school students having “relations” with their teachers did not seem to be _that_ uncommon a thing from my perspective. Heck, my own French teacher at this high school was rather “handsy” with the boys. She’d come up and massage my shoulders during class (not that I was special, but I’m relating that as a personal experience anecdote.) Now, whether she had sex with one of them, I don’t know, but, in retrospect, I see how completely inappropriate her behavior was. (If it matters, I went to an all-boys school.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/24 "2019-06-27T14:25:29Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Just like there are some men that have higher levels of testosterone that have very masculine features, there are women that have higher estrogen levels and tend to have more feminine attributes, whenever I would meet my children’s teachers at their school a lot of them seemed that way with the higher pitches voices and more feminine looks. How could you possibly have known which women had higher estrogen levels? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/25 "2019-06-27T22:58:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Maybe now. But historically rape has been an underreported, underprosecuted, and totally blamed on the victim occurance. Like I posted, any excuse would do. > > She was walking alone after dark. > She was wearing tight clothes. > She was walking in a bad neighborhood. > It’s not like she was a virgin. > So she was raped. It’s not like she was physically hurt > Hey, boys will be boys. > > For decades newspapers would not even print stories of rape. Actually, it often depended on who it was that got raped, who the rapist was, and under what circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/26 "2019-06-28T02:41:17Z")
You think it’s just female teachers and young men? I know two women who married their male teachers. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/27 "2019-06-29T05:50:45Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > You think it’s just female teachers and young men? I know two women who married their male teachers. Reread the OP. The OP specifically acknowledges male teachers but dismisses that from the discussion as males are only predatory – (Males with younger females makes sense because almost all of the time they’re predatory and looking for somebody they can easily exploit) – where with female teachers, it’s “actual genuine love they fall into.” As others have pointed out, this is stereotyping. There are male teachers who are not simply looking for someone to exploit and there are female teachers who do look for victims. Looking online, I found an OpEd at Washington Post from 2015 which claims that in two-thirds of cases, it’s male perpetrators and in one-third it’s females. The author also claims the cases are increasing and blames social media as one factor. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-middle-high-school-boys-that-makes-the-sex-worth-it-for-teachers/836086/28 "2019-06-29T20:56:52Z")
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