Looking For Victims, and Marketing Them

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR a homepage, AOL is a good option; it has possibly the hightest concentration of celebrity and sex, though MSN can't be too far behind. AOL ran a story which is becoming an all too familiar one; young good looking teacher arrested and charged with having sex with her underage student(s). These young female teachers are so good looking you wonder why they don't just do the regular female thing; use sexual attractiveness to control some eligible man who has many resources. Usually, the underage sex with students turns out not to be a risky sort of play time, but rather a sign of deep unfulfilled emotional and interpersonal needs. Our corporate media goes the extra mile in presenting these scandals to us, particularly the ones ivolving female teachers. It sells, in our voyeuristic culture, and we all tend to think less of the victim as a victim, and more of a willing, happily participating participant. WE like the illlicit sex, because the licit sex is so insufferably boring; a relic from our prudish victorian heritage. Hell, Miley Cyrus or Paris Hilton take off a few clothes, dance around a little bit, and we Americans act like its some kind of national emergency. You just can't get good legal sex in America, so the priests stay late after choir practice, the teachers hook up with students, and folks accumulate impressive pornography collections. When everything that's fun is illegal, why obey the law? These pedophile predators so very often go after fourteen year olds, not eighteen year olds. The fourteen year olds are not yet able to make mature judgments, and thus are easier targets for someone for whom all venues of legitimate love seem blocked off. Desperate people care nothing for protocal; they seek targets, victims. With our bizarre combination of corporate sexual marketing (brainwashing) and left over victorian values, we Americans can turn out emotionally desperate people with the best of 'em.