Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Be Kicked Out of the Church Nursery?
“The Mother of All Double Standards” would have to be one of the storylines in the tv show,Desperate Housewives. An adult female has sex with a high school boy. Every episode I have ever seen on tv (or real life) where an adult male has sex with a high school girl ends with the male being handcuffed and sentenced to prison time and registered as a sex offender/pedophile.
To my knowledge I’ve not heard one peep of protest against that storyline. On the other hand, there have been at least two cases in my local area where women had sex with their son’s high school-aged friends. Those two women were really arrested, really tried, really sentenced to prison time, and really registered as sex offenders.
I guess the message in Desperate Housewives is that pedophilia ain’t pedophilia if you are a hot, bored, and lonely housewife.
