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Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-11 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)I'm sorry this happened to you. Please do something about this. It's not your responsibility to stop this man from hurting someone else, but it is an option you have, so if you can find the strength to stop him, please do.
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-11 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)I didn't do anything I didn't want to do. I had a major crush on him and I could have said no. I was over the age of consent though it's a little bit fuzzy because he was my trainer.
I wouldn't do it again and in hindsight (this was back in 2008, I'm a tiny bit wiser now, I hope) I think that he shouldn't have hit on me but I also think it's not appropriate to reclassify this as rape when I did consent to everything.
I also went back and reread the chatlogs from that time and there was more than half a year between that first talk and the first time he hit on me (didn't recall that much time passing at all, huh), so it wasn't "you're depressed? sweet, fuck me!" like it sounds like in my first post.
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-11 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)However you look at it, this person is a fucking slime.
What's more, this would mean that he started talking to you online when you were 16, and didn't make his move until you were 17 (which BTW, where do you live where it is Legal for a 30yo to fuck a 17yo? Where do you live where it is legal for a teacher to fuck a student?) That would be called GROOMING. I'm sorry, but you need to come to terms with what was done to you, and you should really thing about doing something to stop this man from hurting anyone else.
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-11 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)We started talking when I was 17 and had sex for the time when I was still 17 (only a few months before I turned 18). I'm living in Germany were the age of consent is 14 if all involved people are under 18 and 16 no matter the age of the other participants. Exceptions to that rule are situations where one person has a significant power over the other person, so a teacher would be forbidden from having sex with a student.
BUT I think you're overestimating the power imbalance in my case because it was never implied nor did it ever cross my mind that saying no would have any negative consequences. He wasn't my teacher who could give me a bad grade and fuck up my future; he was my trainer and the worst he could have done would have been to fail me in a test. That's a) not that big of a deal b) as I said not something I ever feared.
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(Anonymous) 2015-01-12 08:47 am (UTC)(link)Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-12 10:36 am (UTC)(link)Re: TW: adultery, self harm
I had a thing with a teacher, too. And though I was older them (23 or 24 I think, and in college)not every teacher/student thing is rape by default.
Also just because you self-harm doesn't mean you do not have agency. You might be more vulnerable, yes, but you're not a child.
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-11 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)I don't think it was moral at all of the teacher in question to hit on OP, but yeah this anon is a wonderful example of the typical US-centric victim-enforcing SJW mentality :\
"What kind of backwater immoral nation full of rape do you live in where people under 18 can have sex with adults?"
"...Germany?"
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
But - there's a difference between what's moral and what's legal, and just because something is morally grey doesn't mean there wasn't consent.
Also I remember being 17, and being not-so-innocent DESPITE also self-harming and having mental issues the size of Mexico.
People are not always neatly one thing or another, they are not always perfectly cast in the role of victim or villain. Most people are actually morally grey.
If someone tells me the consented to something, that the did something willingly - I tend to believe them (unless of course the look like they're saying it at gunpoint).
But yeah, I hate how some people insist on pushing people in the victim box. Even young people, even young people in shitty situations are completely capable of making their own decisions. The fact you don't like those decisions is not the point.
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It may/may not have been statutory rape (which is still rape, in a legal sense) but if it wasn't, then it's possible the whole thing wasn't. Maybe it was - maybe OP was groomed and hasn't come to terms with it - but we don't know that from the other side of the screen. This isn't a good situation for jumping to conclusions.
Re: TW: adultery, self harm
(Anonymous) 2015-01-12 03:51 am (UTC)(link)God save us all from dipshits running around trying to brainwash everyone into a victim mentality as though it wasn't way too common already.