The movie "Summer of 42" is an adolescent boy’s fantasy

But if that fantasy occurred today it would be twisted into a story of sexual abuse.

I remember watching the movies The Summer of 42, The Secret of My Success, and The Graduate, among others, and not once did the thought of sexual abuse enter my mind. But getting lucky sure did.

Not as lucky as the same occurring with a friend's hot babe of an older sister, but pretty darn lucky nevertheless.



A question posed on a blog:
“Have you shared the popular, and thoroughly deplorable, cultural opinion (which I saw displayed recently on a secular news website's comment thread) that boys who speak out about being sexually abused by older female authority figures (teachers, etc.) are not really victims at all but are "lucky" to have had such experiences?”

'Shared' it? Well of course I've shared it, I was once a typical modern american adolescent boy, (I converted to the Faith in college); it comes with the territory.

Nor are those adolescent boys victims in any reasonable sense of the term because victims of abuse don't want to be victimized. And just as poor suffering Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof laughed when told that money is the root of all evil so likewise in similar manner do adolescent boy view sex.

To paraphrase Tevye's reply, "May the Lord smite me with "being sexually abused by older female authority figures". And may I never recover"

The only possible way some boy would ever, ever, “speak out about being sexually abused” because he spent intimate time with an older woman would be because he thought he was in deep trouble if he didn’t play along. Because if he didn't play along he would suffer undesirable consequences.

I had a friend in highschool who put in a lot of effort seducing one our of teachers, and when his efforts finally paid off No One thought he was being abused.

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Men going after boys sexually? : I wouldn't complain if execution was the penalty.

Women going after boys sexually? : A story to tell your friends. Because it does not harm a boy anymore than fornication with a girl his own age would. And should be treated the same because there simply is not abuse of the adolescent boy.

Now if someone were to say that relations between female teachers and adolescent boys can cause harm to society, I might be willing to go along with that argument, but that is not what the argument is, nor is that the reason these older women are being prosecuted.

What is perverse is not acknowledging the radical difference between homosexual pedophilia and that of fornication with a girl regardless of her age, because the difference between homosexual sex and fornication is all the difference in the world. Homosexual sex is unnatural and can be extremely damaging. Fornication is natural. So there is all the difference in the world between the two.

And authority has nothing to do with it. The authority those women have over the boys is the same authority girls their own age have over the boy. Where authority becomes a euphemism for what girls have that boys want to enjoy.

And has anyone else noticed that those women in authority accused of "sexual abuse" are typically rather good looking? Most commentators consider this detail to be irrelevant, but it likewise makes all the difference in the world. Getting propositioned by an older hot babe is a lived adolescent fantasy.

If anyone is the victim, i.e. harmed, it's the woman, because sex is simply different for women than it is for men. Boys can walk away untouched with a story to tell their friends. A story told for the same reason I knew of the success of my friend's seduction of our highschool teacher. When you're a boy, some stories just have to be told. And on occasion even turned into a movie, such as The Summer of 42.