Attn. Teenage Boys: If You Are Banging a Hot Teacher, Shut Up About It

Maybe I’m just in a mood—a mood for love—but I don’t feel a lick of pity for Tommy Clay, a 17-year-old high school boy who turned in his 28-year-old teacher after they had an affair. It seems that Tommy is having a hard time reintegrating at his old school, as his peers slowly realize he was an idiot:

“At first it was all high-fives. A lot of guys showed me a lot more respect. But as we got further into it, I mean, I lost a lot of my friends.”

His mother added that many students turned against him after the incident came out. “It turned to How could you turn her in? She’s our favorite teacher’,” she said. … His father, Mark Clay, chimed in. “This shows a lack of awareness in our society. We’re not talking about threats or force. This was an older person manipulating a child into thinking this child wants sexual contact.”

I’m pretty sure that 16-year-old teenage boys don’t need any manipulation to have sex with their hot, blonde teachers. It’s mildly inappropriate at best. I’m not trying to take the meathead line here, either. I legitimately think there’s nothing wrong with a 16-year-old kid having sex with his (or her!) teacher. It’s not something that should be institutionalized or condoned, exactly, but the tone of hysteria around these sort of cases are getting out of hand. Post-pubescent humans fuck. Film at 11 (to 13)!

A sixteen-year-old isn’t a child. He’s not quite a man, either. He’s a teenager who will be experimenting and learning about sex and social standing, whether it’s with a 29-year-old teacher or his other teenage peers. Instead of hiding behind his parents and his age when things got weird, he should have been glad to learn the lesson that relationships never end well while living the high school dream.

Affair with teacher tough on student [Denver Post]