Reply #76: Poll answers ...

[RoyGBiv]

One further clarification since I do not seem to be getting my point across.

I too trust that they are answering as honestly as they can while trying to remember their 14-year-old selves. They're answering in the context of the fantasies they had. As a 14-year-old boy I had a fantasy about owning a Harrier jump jet and being able to park it in my back yard and fly it to school where I'd so impress all the girls that they'd all want to take a ride with me and have sex at 20,000 feet while flying at the speed of sound. And as a 14-year-old boy I never thought anything negative could come of this, like, say, blowing apart my neighbors houses from the exhaust from the jet or how exactly you have sex in a military plane.

Now, had I actually owned that jet and had I actually managed to get all the girls at school to have sex with me in it, I could probably tell you about the experience and what kind of problems it caused or didn't cause. Since that didn't happen, I can only speculate. And it still seems like a pretty cool fantasy.

Sillyness aside, my point is as I stated. The respondents by and large could offer whatever speculation they wanted about how they would have felt about such an experience, and the *speculation* would be truthful. They cannot answer the question of how it did make them feel or how it has affected them because the vast majority did not in fact have a sexual encounter with a "hot" teacher. Among those who did, the psychological and emotional effects may not be consciously known.