Not exactly. The traditional spelling in the UK and Commonwealth (including Canada) has used the oe/œ combination.It's always paedophile.
As long as the student was over 16 no crime was taking place .. unconventional but not illegal ..Friends of my family actually met as student/teacher, with the student being under 18. 40 or so years later, I believe they are still together.
As long as the student was over 16 no crime was taking place .. unconventional but not illegal ..
There were proposals at one time to extend this kind of prohibition to universities but I think that ran aground.
Lecher-lecturers with a harem of acolytes used to be very obvious in my uni-days. I am out-of-touch with the sector but hear rumours that nothing much has changed.
I was watching a YouTube documentary on the Jimmy Savile scandal. Somewhere in the comments, someone added, "it's "pedophile", not "paedophile". After he got roundly flamed for being ignorant of the UK spelling since it happened there, all I could think is "I'm sure Britons wished the other spelling was correct, just this once".
As long as the student was over 16 no crime was taking place .. unconventional but not illegal ..
I've hesitated to mention this, not because I'm ashamed, but because it's creepy, but my first lover was my math teacher. I won't say what year/age, just that it was pubescent age. This teacher started just the way you describe, Swifty. He would call us to his desk, usually to talk about our grades, then touch our hand first below the level of his desk where no one could see. Then next time it was our thighs. Usually at the same time he was telling us (very kindly, you understand) that he was raising our grade a bit because he didn't want us to fail...etc.
Thinking about it now, that was an evilly clever manipulation (go along with this and get a reward) but I don't think I even thought about it like that. Many girls in that class were such that any positive attention from an authority figure was welcome, even like that. Myself, I never thought about resisting and considered myself complicit in what happened. Still do, really, even though if someone of that age told me they seduced their teacher I would be utterly appalled.
There were a few girls that I knew of, but I don't think anyone ever turned him in. See, he was nice, very very nice and made you feel special, and certainly I wasn't willing to cut off the one person who made me feel that way. Possibly it was the same for the other girls, too.
And frankly, in those days it wasn't something that was taken very seriously, anyway. I doubt the schools here would have responded to anything less than a lawsuit back then.
Quoting my own post here, because I've run into an ethical problem. It never occured to me to Google the teacher mentioned above. But since it seems to be my week to search up old lovers, or at least people I'd had injudicious sex with, I did so. I didn't really think I'd find anything, but perhaps there would be an old arrest report or something. This is not what I found.
This former teacher of mine is now the director of children and family services in a large city in another country!
Not only that, but is a social worker for the school board in that place! There's a home for troubled children he's in charge of that houses kids of exactly the age range my classmates were in back then. Maybe that age range is his area of expertise, I don't know, but I'm thinking fox + henhouse. And we all know that troubled children are rarely taken at their word if they try to report an authority.
The right thing to do is notify someone of this. It was a long time ago, but there's no denying that he slept with me and at the very least fooled around with my friend M. at the back of the band hall (we are still friends today, and she admits to it) and at least one other girl in that class when we were barely in double digits. What are the chances he just stopped?
At the same time, I've had some traumatic experiences with this kind of thing and don't feel like I'm fit to wade into it.
Groan.
I've talked it over with my OH and we've decided on sending an anonymous letter to the authorities in that county explaining the situation, that it was long ago but if there are any similar reports to please take them setiously, etc.
Don't know if it will help, but that's what I'm going to do for now.
I've talked it over with my OH and we've decided on sending an anonymous letter to the authorities in that county explaining the situation, that it was long ago but if there are any similar reports to please take them setiously, etc.
Don't know if it will help, but that's what I'm going to do for now.
Probably a good idea, although there's always the chance an anonymous letter will be ignored or binned.
How old would the teacher be now?
I am out-of-touch with the sector but hear rumours that nothing much has changed.
I read Wire in the Blood soon after it came out (I'm a huge fan of crime fiction) and even then it was very clearly based on JS. And if you've ever heard the edition of In the Psychiatrist's Chair with Anthony Clare, it was clear that back then, in 1991, that was both a disturbed and disturbing individual. I never liked his TV/radio persona - a DJ with no apparent interest in music - and after listening to In the Psychiatrist's Chair I tried to avoid him entirely.
He'd be in his early 60's or thereabouts.
It is tricky because everyone likes to be wise, after the fact. There was much discussion on this board about how he was never convicted in court, which I felt wilfully ignored what he was happy to say about himself. And I always felt from childhood that he was a wrongun. However, I was completely fooled by Rolf Harris's public image.
Jonathan King had a 1966 pop hit "Everyone's Gone To The Moon" and now he's been involved in underage sex offenses.
I think she hit the nail on the head
True enough although I think that Tracy Ulman sketch was making a point of your point and not just laughing it off. The "Oh, well, times were different then" and "He's just a randy old goat" attitudes are disturbing yes ..I think so too. But it also troubles me as it's kind of the problem, i.e. - back in the 80s, men perving over pre-teen girls could be the basis of a comedy sketch, that it was all laughable and a joke. Seems that a afair few of the celeb abusers were allowed to get away with things with little scrutiny as their behaviour was written off as, "Oh, that's just ........., he's a pervy old sod."
True enough although I think that Tracy Ulman sketch was making a point of your point and not just laughing it off.
I agree .. Chris Morris lost his series Brass Eye for making Paedoggeden although that was actually trying to mock media led hysteria on the issue. Sometimes jokes can go too far if they're being broadcast into people's homes.Maybe mate. But she was still using the subject matter to get laughs. I don't think, rightfully, that you could do that anymore.
Chris Morris lost his series Brass Eye for making Paedoggeden although that was actually trying to mock media led hysteria on the issue.
Yes- Morris was never making a joke about paedophilia through that episode. He was using it make a joke about us and the media. Plenty didn't get it, as people often don't get Morris.
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