Nothing juices public attention more than sex stories of one sort or another. Here are three unrelated sex tales which appeared in the news recently, one involving oversexed teachers, one involving sexual disease, one involving sexual mutilation.
What else could you ask for?
Teachers Are At It Again: It's become almost commonplace to read of American teachers having affairs with American students as if it's almost a mandated extracurricular activity.
(Do see Part One in a series, "Teachers Gone Wild," /blog1/?p=370, "Teachers Gone Wild V" et al. Having served in the education trenches, I know whereof I speak.)
Said sexual activity, once largely confined to male teachers hitting on gullible and vulnerable female students, has in the last two decades become the shared province of female teachers. It seems that, fueled by their bubbling lust and our hypersexed society, they also want in on the action and to hell with the consequences.
We've all heard of certain infamous "ladies" of the classroom daytime who have made the papers by providing extra help to students above and beyond school district mandates.
There was the absolutely gorgeous Debra LaFave of Florida. Debs seduced and bedded a 14 year old boy when she was 23. She was considered too pretty to serve time in a jail "hell hole" so was punished for her indiscretions with home confinement. Sort of like school detention without homework assignments.
Then there was New Hampshire's own Pamela Smart who belied her surname by seducing a 15 year old boy and assigned him to kill her hubby. Apparently unaware of a thing called divorce court, she's serving a life sentence.
Finally, there was Seattle's queen of lecherous ladies, Mary Kay Schmitz Letourneau Fualauu.
Mary Kay-no relation to the cosmetics people- had 4 kids with her spouse then went on to set all kinds of nasty records in the female teacher pedophiliac history book.
She first spied her prey in 2nd grade, landed him when he was 12, got a suspended sentence, violated her parole, bore him 2 kids, and served more time. She finally made an honest man of Vili Fualauu by marrying him after her husband divorced her for some reason.
Now there's a new contender for the teacher-lecher throne, Michelle Simonson of Michigan. She, however, has a long way to go to catch up with the leaders of the cougar pack.
Michelle got caught up in the teen sexting craze even though she was 28. She allegedly sexted some 50 sexually suggestive messages to a 14 year old special ed student, including one of herself topless. She's been charged with sexual abuse.
The report on Michelle, written by a woman, offers a slew of reasons for female predation: /1aFazZ. (Pictures of 14 "women in trouble" can be viewed on that website.)
Usually, males apprehended in similar situations have been dispatched to prison with little concern for what made them do it.
It's nice to see that Women's Liberation has evened the playing field for women, so to speak.
STD's, the Red Badge of Manhood: A Swedish study has concluded that, "Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood."
That's an odd determination in Sweden where sexual activity is easily Swedes'-and most Nordics' as well as Dutch-favorite indoor sport.
Some young Swedes who contract STD's feel they've been "unlucky" in love, others learn from the experience, "But members of a third group-consisting entirely of young men-succeed in transforming their diseases into a sign of their manhood."
It's hard to imagine young women delighting in "a sign of their manhood."
It's equally difficult to imagine young men or young women taking any satisfaction or joy in contracting chlamydia, genital warts, genital herpes, gonorrhea, HPV, syphilis, or any of the more exotic sexual diseases.
Boys will be boys, however, and girls are increasingly like boys in that they, too, wanna have fun.
The Swedish researcher, Kina Hammerlund, asked, "Whatever happened to making out? Whatever happened to heavy petting?" She also discovered that, "Sex is no longer a big deal for young people. It's something girls use to get boyfriends, while guys want to gain experience."
I would ask, Where have you been living for the last 20 years, Ms. Hammerlund? It took a study to understand that fact of modern life?
Hammerlund "is disappointed in the results of the study," not because of discovering that today's teens are very sexually active and don't give a damn what develops from it. She is disappointed that her results "indicate a lack of progress when it comes to overcoming gender stereotypes:" /7NGkK.
Wake up and smell the frskl, lady!
Government Sexual Mutilation: Our Jewish brethren view male circumcision as a religious rite, borne of health and hygienic considerations, much like the consumption of pork products. The very painful procedure is also universal in the Muslim world and common in United States.
In our contemporary culture, slicing off the foreskin of the penis is considered by many to be a barbaric, unnecessary ritual constituting child abuse and non-consensual mutilation when performed on defenseless babies.
The World Health Organization, WHO, an arm of the United Nations, contends male circumcision is a beneficial practice to help ward off HIV infections. The equally-liberal AMA feels more education is needed for parents before they consent to the procedure being performed on their children.
Personally, I'm ambivalent on the issue although skeptical about any recommendations from any U.N. body most of which focus on benefits for the Third World with little if any regard for American interests.
When America's Center for Disease Control, CDC, gets into the act, I have even more cause for skepticism: /pdT9V.
HIV infections are hardly epidemic in the United States even if they are in Africa. To use conditions in Africa as an excuse for universal circumcision in our country reflects either an Afro-centric viewpoint mindlessly extended to America or the sentiments of male-hating feminists who would senselessly wreak their vengeance on babies.
In a way, the 3 sub-topics of this essay may seem disjointed. In another way, they're very interrelated in this syllogism: Too many of America's teachers are falling or laying down on the job; sexually-transmitted diseases are rampant and WHO and the CDC want to mutilate penises; ergo, support Obama!
Who could better deal with teacher aberrations than a former teacher?
Who would be better qualified to deal with STD's than a guy with 2 daughters who soon will be entering the dating scene?
Who could best address mutilation than a president intent on mutilating America's health care system?
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