When “Staying Behind After Class” Becomes the New Rage

Now of course I can’t keep track of every case of teacher/student relationships, but lately it doesn’t seem that I have to. Within the past few years it seems like more teachers are taking their job dedication to the next level by ensuring that some of their cherished students receive as thorough of a sex education that they can get until they inevitably get caught. Even more surprising is that we’ve seen a steady increase of female teacher and underage male student relationships than we’ve seen male and female, and I can’t help but wonder why?

First, let’s get some of the established facts out of the way. Yes, older men are more likely to prey on younger women than older woman are to prey on younger men, but older women are more than capable of doing so and have indeed done so for centuries.

Fact #2 is that most men, at some point in their lives, have wanted to sleep with an attractive older woman, and the first woman they encounter that meets that criteria is usually a teacher.(to my female readers, if you ask your man if he’s ever at least thought about sleeping with an older woman and he says no, more than likely he’s telling you a lie.)

Older woman naturally have more appeal, especially to a young man. They’re more developed(if the guy is in high school) generally more (intellectually) mature than the girls in the guy’s age group, and chances are that he’ll learn something(both figuratively and literally) just by spending time with them.

I know for me personally, all it took was me skipping a grade in elementary school to never look at girls my age again. Older girls just generally became more intriguing to me…

Here’s the thing though. Women know that guys generally like older women just like men know that women generally like older men. Women also know that men tend to lean towards the hot teacher/student fantasy, so I’m sure with these teacher student hookups that all of that factors in, whether it’s verbalized or not.

However, what I don’t understand is why it’s happening so much more frequently. I’m going to pretend that “because they thought they wouldn’t get caught” isn’t the main reason if only because I’d like to think that people,as a whole, aren’t that naive.

Are the female teachers that lonely? Are they just looking for a thrill? Did they not get enough attention during pivotal moments of their lives?(High School? College?) Are they missing the attention they used to get during high school/college? Do they really just like young boys?

Let’s look at my former High School English Teacher Mrs. Cynthia Horvath

The picture above is more or less how I remember my English teacher.(I think that picture was taken 2008, and I graduated 2006) She was always a rather nice lady. Not overly strict and I actually learned in her class. She was actually the one who encouraged me to pursue a career in writing (this blog will have to do) and though I don’t have “favorite teachers” I liked her more than others.

The following picture is her mugshot:

And THIS is her in 2012… a registered sex offender in the state of Florida :/

Now how did she get to this point? And yes I mean besides the obvious answer that she ended up having sex with one of her students… I have some theories.

For starters, Mrs Horvath was just hitting her forties around the time I first met her and I have to say that for a woman in her forties, she was fairly attractive. Even though I do like older women, a 25+ year difference was way too much for me to even have a student crush on her but that didn’t stop some of my fellow classmates from liking her.

I remember one day she brought in a picture of herself when she was about 25, and man she was gorgeous. It’s safe to say she didn’t have a problem getting dates as a young woman. So you would think that at forty, she would know how to handle a little male attention from a group of hormonal teenage boys. You’d be partially right.

While I can’t say that she fell for some of the upper classmen’s borderline sexual advances,(or maybe she did and I’ll never know) I also can’t say that she shut them down like an adult (who’s also married with children) should have. In a nutshell, let’s just say that you can’t flirt with someone who isn’t flirting back..

So when I found out, two years after graduating, that she’d been arrested in Orlando for sleeping with one of her students at the school she’d transferred to, I wasn’t completely surprised. However,I did wonder why…

Following the news story, her defense attorneys claimed that she was suffering a severe hormonal imbalance ( Oh?) as well as ‘other mental conditions’ and she ended up being put on house arrest, probation, and was not allowed to interact with other minors outside of her immediate family. Disappointingly, she ended up violating her 7 year probation not even a year later when she tried to contact a “16 yr old boy”(really a sting operation) on Facebook. Hence the ‘registered sex offender’ picture you saw earlier on this post.

So if a woman who, to the best of my knowledge, had a loving family surrounding her but still went looking for a teenage love, can there really be a common factor that links some of these cases besides them all being a little sick in the head? I couldn’t really think of anything, what do you all think?