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Mary Kay Letourneau is negotiating with a bachelorette party over a large inflatable penis. The bride-to-be has been carrying it all evening—it has a string so that it may be slung over the back—and people have signed it with a Sharpie marker. In a moment of crystalline good judgment, Letourneau demurs; the inflatable penis will go about its business without her signature and without appearing in a photograph with her. The bride-to-be in her sparkly novelty veil looks overjoyed nonetheless.
It's purely by chance that the bachelorette party is at Hot for Teacher night at Fuel Sports Eats & Beats in Pioneer Square; they were passing by around 9:00 p.m., saw the television crews, discovered what was going on, and knew instinctively that this was the way to celebrate impending nuptials. Hot for Teacher night, as the club's doormen explained, is hosted by Letourneau; her former student, her reason for imprisonment, and her current husband, Vili Fualaau, is the DJ.
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Before Letourneau arrived, the doormen at Fuel reported that the club had received many phone calls warning that all involved were going to hell. "I'm already on my way," said one. "I'd sell my soul if I still owned the rights to it." The doormen called the bachelorette party "beautiful ladies" and signed the inflatable penis gladly.
A lone protester began yelling outside. The TV cameras swarmed; a biker went outside and revved his motorcycle's engine to drown out the protester. The doormen were engulfed in a cloud of exhaust; the sound was like an empty giant blender malfunctioning. The protester left.
Fualaau, aka DJ Headline, took the stage, and a few people snapped photos. He played mashups of songs from the '70s and '80s—Letourneau's youth—and more recent favorites. At one point the lyric "crazy bitch" played on a seemingly eternal loop. Firemen came through on a routine inspection; one professed ignorance of Fualaau's identity. "Well, he has to be 21 to be here," he said. (Fualaau is 25; Letourneau is 47.) "It's not very crowded," he further observed. (The event did not sell out.)
When Letourneau appeared, wearing a black strapless dress, red
lipstick, and silver flip-flops, she was lightly mobbed. Everyone
wanted a photo of her or with her. She smiled. Later, during an
interview in the bathroom, she said Fualaau is also DJing six nights a
week at a club called Cloud 9 in Kent; she has to drive him
there because he got a DUI. She was entirely pleasant, talkative,
seemingly without guile. She signed autographs "Oh happy day." She's
stayed out of the limelight until now, but she's happy to do Hot for
Teacher night. If it helps Fualaau's DJ career, then, she says, "right
on." This is, it appears, something she is doing for love. 
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Oh and they have Joust and Ms. Pac Man at fuel, which added to the retro thing.
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At this point, they are both living the lives they want to live and who are we to judge?
More power to them.
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Yes, what Mary K did was a crime, but it will never be as big of a deal as when 34 year old guys do that with underage girls. To wish otherwise is a fight against human nature which you will lose every time. And I will continue to enjoy the hell out of this gallery of female sex offenders
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You're on a slippery slope, my friend.
As a female teacher, I have to agree with presently out. The issue here isn't (necessarily) pedophilia, the issue is that she was his TEACHER and she SLEPT WITH HIM. That is an abuse of power on so many levels. It doesn't matter whether the teacher in question is male or female; the possibility of pregnancy is only one of the reasons why it's wrong. It doesn't matter that whether he could easily bench press her weight; the teacher controls the classroom.
The classroom is supposed to be a safe place for students. Parents trust us with their children even though we are almost strangers to them. They trust us not to fuck their kids up. Betraying that trust is not an option.
Ugh.
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On the other hand, even having been to one already and the novelty having worn somewhat, if she's really hot, like Debra Lafave, and if they have a pool table, and a jukebox with good music on it, I'll probably go to that one too.
I feel some pretty good traction where I'm sanding. I said it is a crime, but then I said it's not nearly the big deal people make of it, especially in the Fualau case which arguably could have and should have been left alone by the authorities.
The real slippery slope is the crazy fear of teenagers and sex. We used to arrange marriages for kids that age, now we charge them with felony child-porn for texting pictures of their own girl-parts. That's the slope we're already sliding down and need to apply some breaks to.
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Ugh. I can't believe you actually pulled the whole "she's so small, and could never rape that big samoan guy!" shit.
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My main argument is that it's different, not just for boys, but most importantly, for people who were never forced to do anything. To call Mary K a "child rapist" is technically accurate only because we use the word "statutory rape" to describe what she did. To equate her with someone who actually forced another person into a sex act trivializes actual rape and contributes to the epidemic of prosecutions that are supposed to protect the children and actually constitute a crime by the state, like these
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