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[alibaba]

that should have been nonsense gordon!!

[Gordon]

[Clancy]

When you look at your foreign students they may have the body of an adult. However, they are still children psychologically speaking, naive etc.

Dating them makes you a pedophile.

[ilunga]

Good stuff Clancy.
You've ensured this thread won't be disappearing for a while yet.
Maybe we should just all agree so we can get shot of it.

[Wolf]

[ClaudeRains]

Dear, dear.


Many of the posters on this thread need a night lost in another's arms. Their level of anger and wrath methinks doth bare befit the contemplated crime. Aramas, ah Aramas... your guileless spirit speaks to us so eloquently. William Blake once reflected: "Those who restrain desire do so because theirs can be restrained." If Kobe Tai came into any man's class and gave him a come-hither eye, he would soon throw off these cautious David's threads, these chatterings of clerkish minds, and nail the magic nymph multiple times, so many times that, indeed, even one hour might seem until the heat death of our universe. Would that fortunate chap were I.

Avail yourselves of history and the best of literature. It's full of romance that sleeps across the lines of clan, colour, age, and war--romance that transgresses the boundaries. It's that very transgression which sparks such a high level of eroticism. Aramas only holds out for the savage passion which defies all, which creates its own universe--if only for a night.

Does this mean any teacher who sleeps with a student or guardian who beds his charge can be compared with Jesus and Mary Magdalene? Lancelot and Guinevere? Aristotle and Alexander? Perhaps not. But the shocked Capulets and Montagues of blanket taboos have held poison sway here too long. You who speak so roundly on forbidden Eros are strangers to your natures. We have passions which, once awakened, wash away not only rules, but empires, even continents.

Perhaps Aramas is no saint. But he understands that sometimes a sin is a grand and beautiful thing�

[johnslat]

Dear ClaudeRains,
My congratualtions - that definitely ranks with the highest of high-class horsefeathers. Yikes, man (well, I assume, anyway) - have you no shame? I'm not talking about the content of your message here - nope, it's the florid, pretentious, overblown style that I'm referring to.
But then, perhaps (I hope) it was all a put on, a paraody of fine - in the sense of being marked by or affecting elegance or refinement - writing that was SUPPOSED to inspire some chuckles, even a guffaw or two. If so, congrats again - I'd say you could hardly have done a better job of mimicing grandiloquence.
Finally, regarding your "tag-line":

[khmerhit]

Dear John,

You are too kind to Claude Rains. He reminds me of Dan the Weightlifter, maybe he is Dan the weightlifter-- shirtlifter version. I have nothing against romance, but I tend to mistrust those who talk about it, if you see what I mean. I knew a few of them in Cambodia, before they went to jail.

Somehow, I doubt this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Regards

kh

[ClaudeRains]

Oh Canada
Friendly Neighbor to the North
This was the unkindest cut of all

--Possibly Francis Bacon

[khmerhit]

Yeah, you're right--I apologize-it was a bit OTT. sorry. But your proseis rather ....fruity. Anyway nothing personal as I havent a clue who you are. And longlive romance, of the licit variety.

cheers

kh

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[Joachim]

Dating a 17 year old girl doesn't make you a paedophile, but it does make you seriously disturbed.

What can a qualified ESL teacher (who must therefore be aged at least 21 or 22) from the west have in common with and Asian teenager???

Is it easier to go out with people who aren't going to challenge or question you in any way, and just accept that you deserve admiration, respect and reverence for being white?

[Aramas]

[joe-joe]

Oh Lordy what a thread! I've just succeeded in wading through it. Should I add my penneth worth or not I aske myself...... Yeah why not. On teachers having power/authority over their students well, yes children/teenagers perhaps, but adults, ah, no. I teach ministers of government at the moment, and some people who have more money, (by various means), than I'll ever be able to dream of. Do I think I have some influence or authority over them; NO. Or certainly no more than the driver, maid, or various other hired help they employ.

As for the Morality Police, well if said relationships between students and teachers are of consenting age, well then that's their business, so enough said. If it's between juveniles and a teacher, well then of course that's not healthy and/or legal. But in truth many tefl teachers I've met, well they are frankly also juvenile in their minds, if not in body.

[Wolf]