Happy Valentine's Day!

[raefinlay]

*does not say "bah humbug"*

Happy V-day especially to this happy couple:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/14/teacher.sex.ap/index.html

A friend recently suggested that the reason I'm not "with" someone right now is my standards are too high. So, I'm thinking to expand my eligible age range to include those who are-- *counts on fingers* --eleven years old. I mean, age has no meaning in matters of love, right?

*shrug*

Seriously, though, gotta give 'em credit for hanging with each other over the years. They've been through a lot (kids, paparazzi, jail...).

Comments

[britzkrieg.livejournal.com]

The Letourneau case has always fascinated me. It challenges so many assumptions and taboos, so many modern notions of right and wrong. The situation is complex, and I refuse to pass judgement one way or the other.

Either way, people have the right to be happy.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I'm all confuddled. Teachers screwing their sixth grade students should probably not become a universal practice. But yeah, the situation is complex.

[aaron-mag.livejournal.com]

Very funny Rae. :P

I do find it strange that I feel sorry for Letourneau, yet don't feel sorry for the male coach who ran off with a sixteen year old (local guy). Sort of a double standard there (even among us men).

Teacher's have to put a level of separation there. The one above is obvious (with Letourneau), but it is even the case when the age difference isn't that drastic. When I was 22 (just graduated from college), for example, I had girls in my martial arts class that were 16 to 17. You set boundaries, right from the start, and you don't cross them. Not even in any mental sense.

It helps, of course, that I've always been attracted to women who were intellectually engaging. Not much of that among 16 year olds. :)

Maybe Letourneau was some sort of special circumstance, but I gotta think she would have been better off if she had set boundaries and stuck with em. Financially it has to be hard (for both of them).

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's the secret... maybe a relationship is bound to last forever if we keep at least one of the participants confined to a single-sex compound. We should research this.

And keep those standards high. It's the only way you'll get somone you deserve.