In two-thirds of heterosexual couples, the man is at least a year older
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#2Good to see some real numbers - and amusing to read the write up of trying to contextualize those numbers into the NYT's accepted socially appropriate consensus.
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#3The classical explanation for this is that men are attracted to fertility while women are attracted to status.
I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive. The appearance of being with someone like that does not do her brand any favors in her social context. She's out of his league.
This is probably a little (a lot) reductionist but it provides a pretty satisfying explanation, at least to me.
Human beings are nasty machines.
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#4Is it just me, or am I getting a slut-shaming vibe from the article? Shouldn't women be able to sleep w/whomever w/o worrying about the "market effect"?
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#5Is it just me, or am I getting a slut-shaming vibe from the article? Shouldn't women be able to sleep w/whomever w/o worrying about the "market effect"?
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#6The classical explanation for this is that men are attracted to fertility while women are attracted to status. I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive. The appearance of being with someone like that does not do her brand any favors in her social context. She's out of his league. This is probably a little (a lot) reductionist but it prov…
> I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive.
I'm interested in your explanation as to why so many female teachers have sex with their teenage students then.
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#7The classical explanation for this is that men are attracted to fertility while women are attracted to status. I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive. The appearance of being with someone like that does not do her brand any favors in her social context. She's out of his league. This is probably a little (a lot) reductionist but it prov…
> I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive. I'm interested in your explanation as to why so many female teachers have sex with their teenage students then.
paraphilias exist; you're ttalking about rare events; those women are often in their 20s.
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#8Is it just me, or am I getting a slut-shaming vibe from the article? Shouldn't women be able to sleep w/whomever w/o worrying about the "market effect"?
The article has a very pro-sex vibe to it so I'm going to say it's just you.
> Sign a pledge with me here today. Not of celibacy (where’s the fun in that?), but let’s end this scourge once and for all by committing to contemporaries.
> If I could prolong my time as a young adult by, say, 2.3 years, here is a list of things I would like to do:
[...]
• Have more romantic partners. Preferably ones with abs.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive. I'm interested in your explanation as to why so many female teachers have sex with their teenage students then.
paraphilias exist; you're ttalking about rare events; those women are often in their 20s.
Teacher student relationships have spiked [1] with a third of the perpetrators being female (up from only 4% a decade ago [2]). A quick glance at the cases showed the female teachers in their 30s, but I'm digging more to get the age distribution from case datasets.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/20/...
[2] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-are-so-many-fema...
Re: In two-thirds of heterosexual couples, the man is at least a year older
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
paraphilias exist; you're ttalking about rare events; those women are often in their 20s.
Teacher student relationships have spiked [1] with a third of the perpetrators being female (up from only 4% a decade ago [2]). A quick glance at the cases showed the female teachers in their 30s, but I'm digging more to get the age distribution from case datasets. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/20/... [2] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-are-so-many-fema...
> In 2014 alone, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual relationships with students. My firm, Drive West Communications, has been tracking news reports of sexual misconduct by educators for more than a year. Every week has brought news of 15 young people, on average, who were sexually victimized by the educators entrusted with protecting them. That’s an abhorrent rate and a trend that deserves far more attention from school leaders and policy makers.
In a country with 73 million children, and roughly 3.2 million full time equivalent teachers. That's pretty much the definition of a rare event.
In general, any increase in numbers should be regarded as better reporting and better recording of crime, rather than an increase in that crime.
Female teacher on male student sexual crime has only recently been taken seriously (and it's still got some way to go to reach parity in perception with male teacher on female student sexual crime), so I'd expect reporting and recording of this crime to be changing.
You've posted two links, but one refers to the other.
> In 2014, Abbott said, two-thirds of reported teacher-related sexual misconduct cases with students involved men; that means one-third of the cases involved female teachers.
Does it? Or does it mean the sex of the offender isn't always collected?
I can't seem to find his data anywhere.