Our oversexualized culture enables teachers to become abusers

The past few years have seen several scandals involving school teachers having sexual relations with their underage students. Our oversexualized culture is to blame.

In 2023, there was a surprising frequency of stories that made the news featuring teachers all over the country, many of them relatively younger women, who had engaged with their underage students sexually by sending them naked images online, sexting them, or going all the way.