Sexual abuse by teachers

[gilfer]

Its quite common to hear male teachers having sexual relations/sexually abusing their students but i hear female teachers do this as well, my question is why do female teachers do it?

[chocolatemilk]

First of all, I don't think sexual relations or abuse of students by teachers of either gender is in any way common, it's unforunate that it exists at all but it simply does not exist on a scale that could be considered 'common'.

Why would female teachers do it also? same reason male teachers do, perhaps for women it is more emotionally motivated.

[gilfer]

well we will never know how common it is esp if male students are the victims, society thinks male students (or males in general) cant be raped, so who knows how many cases there are

[LanceVanceDance]

Originally Posted by gilfer

well we will never know how common it is esp if male students are the victims, society thinks male students (or males in general) cant be raped, so who knows how many cases there are

This simply isn't true. All the recent publicised cases of female teacher/male student sex ended up with the female teacher being charged with rape (even when the student was willing).

And why would women need a different "reason" than men for doing this?

[coolchick]

Im sorry to have to reply to this in such a way but i think this thread is very narrow minded. I am a teacher (female) and there is no "common" abuse going on within schools. If you have been reading the news, the percentage of physical abuse is coming from pupils towards teachers but not sexual. Thats why its so scary that the government is now mentioning for teachers to start wearing stab proof vests to come to school. How bad is that??

When it comes to the sexual accusations, i'll obviously admit that some of these are true, same as to citizens raping girls/boys in the street that we cant understand....but i will say that teachers automatically get suspended even if children make one accusation. Sometimes they say things around the playground or to a member of staff because they have a crush on the teacher in question. This often goes to the news and people think that its true because they have been suspended.

Anyways i just wanted to stick up for teachers.

[george237]

The same reason a man does it.

[Aurian]

Well, to be fair, the perception seems to be different between the two.

The male in a position of authority does it because he is a pedophile, or because he can`t control himself. He is sick and harms the young girl. The girl is always the victim.

The female in the position of authority does it because she "loves" the boy. The boy is often called lucky. People cheer on the boy for "getting it" and winning an older woman. Sometimes the female even marries the boy when he is of age.

Personally both are abusing their position of authority but in the media, the reactions seem quite different. Some sex role thing, I guess. Both are wrong in my eyes.