Sunday, November 13, 2005

Teacher-student sex OK, says prof

A British professor who has been studying pupil-teacher relationships for 25 years concludes sexual contact between them should not necessarily be criminal conduct – in fact, she says, they can be positive experiences.

Pat Sikes of the University of Sheffield was seduced by her history teacher at the age of 14 and later became his wife. Now she has written "Scandalous Stories and Dangerous Liaisons: When Female Pupils and Male Teachers Fall In Love."
(Whole article here.)

I don't believe I'll be ordering that one from Amazon to give for Christmas this year. To paraphrase H. L. Mencken, there is nothing so depraved that you can’t find a university professor somewhere to defend it.