"Got it bad soooo bad, I'm hot for teacher." Per the Daily Mail, an educator from West Yorkshire, UK (the town of Mytholmroyd*) wrote a book of erotic fiction featuring her students. This was most disagreeable and angry-making for parents and faculty.

The genesis of the book was an earnest desire to get her students to read more (you should read more) and took suggestions regarding the subject matter. The teens, quite obviously, were interested in sex, ASBO** shenanigans and some gay stuff.

Leonora Rustamova (or Ms. Rusty, as the kids call her) self-published the sexy … Read More

There's a question that's been plaguing a lot of people lately, particularly mothers, feminists, accomplished professionals, and roughly half the world's women over the age of thirty. It goes a little something like this: What is it about Facebook that makes tween, teen, and twenty-something girls want to come across to the world as porn stars?More specifically: Is there something inherent in the social networking site – which exploded in popularity primarily due to its photo-sharing capabilities – that makes girls want to look at a camera with the pursed-up lips and half open eyes of a blow-up … Read More

A recent WSJ piece highlighted a new study on the child-parent relationship with regard to dating. Parents who were in stable, loving relationships prescribed traditional dating advice, setting time for curfews, etc., while those parents who are unlucky in love seemed to project their relationship misgivings onto the kids.

Says the piece:

"Parents who are unhappy, dissatisfied or insecure in love, however, go beyond limits and try to dictate or control how their teens treat their dates, the study found. These parents try to influence their kids to value certain things and act in specific ways. Parents would … Read More