The latest from our friends over at Double X (a blog subtitled “What Women Really Think“):  a brief pean to the teacher-student sexual relationship, from the female perspective (of course, given the source):

It strikes me as so perfectly symbiotic: The beautiful blank slate of a student takes knowledge from his wise and wizened mentor, and in exchange gives the joy of fresh enthusiasm. And sex. I won’t be so flip as to ask “What’s wrong with that?” (Obviously, there are many unpleasant examples of the Socrates figure taking advantage of someone vulnerable and non-consenting.) But I will say that, in its idealized form, doesn’t that sound kind of nice?

Sex in exchange for the teaching of knowledge as an ideal?  Yes, she’s speaking about the Greek “tradition” of pedagogical pederasty rather than contemporary student-teacher liasons.  One wonders whether she would gush so enthusiastically if the ancient Greek men in question had been bedding 12 year old girls.  But in any case, consider this as Exhibit C in our documentation of the continuing decadent trend in Western morality.