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.
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. 
I heard about this event before it happened. At first, I wasn’t sure what to think. But she served her time, they got married, I guess they can do whatever they want. Which is ironic, because she broke the law but was later allowed to get married, but gays who are law-abiding citizens cannot get married.
AK1 – Well, if gay people could get married that would just devalue the whole concept…
I noticed that the people getting their pictures taken with her were more than half female, and more than half of them were seriously hot and that made my whole evening. And his music was way better than I would have expected from someone so young. I also got a laugh from the Komo van out front and looked to see if Marlee Ginter was reporting on this event. I love the way the story on the Komo site repeats uses the word “rape” at least twice. It’s really hilarious when you see her, making me look tall, and try to imagine here forcing herself on the Samoan guy up on the stage. I was really glad I went.
Oh and they have Joust and Ms. Pac Man at fuel, which added to the retro thing.
Pedophiles is still pedophiles, even if, say, you happen to be still with your pedophile victim X number of years later.
Fucking trash.
They’ve made their bed, and even dealt with the consequences. Most relationships end over small disputes, these two weathered a scandal and waited through a prison sentence.
At this point, they are both living the lives they want to live and who are we to judge?
More power to them.
Does this new Bellevue teacher who was accused of having sex with his 16-year-old student get a “hot for teacher” night? …..cricket, cricket…….
Van Halen rocks!
God knows I wanted to fuck my 8th grade English teacher. And my 10th grade math teacher. I’d be a better man if either had agreed to it.
#7 Yes there’s a different standard for men in this situation. Men don’t risk pregnancy when they have sex. A reputation as a slut can be physically dangerous for a young girl, it’s the opposite of that for a young boy. So 34 year old women fucking young boys are just simply not committing anywhere near the kind of crime that a man fucking underage girls is guilty of. Every guy who had sex when he was underage is proud of it, unless it was with a Catholic priest. That’s not the case for girls.
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
Oh and another interesting factoid on the Mary Fualau case is that Mary and Vili co-wrote a book on the whole thing, and it’s never been published in English. Oh, and here’s another one. Vili’s mother also contributed to the book.
OK, then, Baggins. What about this newest teacher who was caught having sex with her 14-year-old student in NYC? Better yet, what if every female teacher who has betrayed the trust inherent in her profession was thrown a grand party?
You’re on a slippery slope, my friend.
@11 and 13:
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.
#13 It depends on whose throwing the party. If the “victim” reaches the age of consent, marries the perpetrator and they throw the party together, and if I hadn’t already been to one such party, I would probably pay a cover charge to go.
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.
I have heard (from someone who used to work at their school, and who knew him quite well) that Villi pretty much “rode the short bus” – and that his family has kept that piece of information (his disability) completely out of the press. This made what she did even more heinous in their and their co-workers’ eyes. I’m wondering if anyone noticed any disability on his part the other night?
I noticed that Van Halen rocks!
Of course these two are free to do whatever legal things they’re inclined to nowadays, although that doesn’t change the fact that Letourneau criminally misused her position of power and is, in fact, a child rapist. But what makes this particular situation wrong is the deliberate use of this criminal history as a theme for the event. Do you not even get that, Luke Baggins, with your whole ridiculously outdated “but it’s different for BOYS” schtick? You don’t mention the fact that the entire night centered around the “hot for teacher” premise.
Ugh. I can’t believe you actually pulled the whole “she’s so small, and could never rape that big samoan guy!” shit.
Leek,
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
It is different for boys than for girls, and yes that is human nature. But the prior poster who noticed that failed to recognize how human nature is supported so very lopsidedly in legislation. Boys universally like sex, girls only selectively. The definition of rape as a crime is a female agenda. If all felt about sex the way males do, there would not exist such a definition of rape as crime. Therefore men are put in prison because of female sensibilities, while women who betray male sensibilities are applauded as civil rights heroines. This is gender balance? Another of many examples of how it is a women’s world and has been for many years. Feminists who say it is a man’s world are in a fantasy, and using that fantasy to justify a more and more repressive (anti-male) culture. Today’s males under age 40 don’t even remember what it was like to have civil rights. They are virtually gone for those of us who have a penis.