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'''Daria:''' Yeah. Hire one pedophile and she gets all bent out of shape. }}
* In the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "Dexter Detention", Miss Wimple seems a little bit ''too'' affectionate towards Dexter. She faints when errs even so slightly.
=== Real Life ===
* Infamously, bisexual French existentialist feminist [[Simone de Beauvoir]]. During her time as a French high school teacher, she seduced several of her female students, and also passed on some of them to her partner [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. Finally, the mother of a Nathalie Sorokine had enough, sued her and had her fired.
* As a 26-year-old teacher, W. H. Auden fell in love with a 13-year-old pupil of his, Michael Yates. Auden encouraged Yates's career as a designer and Yates unknowingly inspired some of Auden's most celebrated love poetry. Yates became a lifelong friend of Auden's, and the friendship eventually included Yates's wife. Chester Kallman, Auden's partner, chose Yates to walk with him behind Auden's coffin.
* In his autobiography, ''Flannelled Fool'', T. C. Worsley describes his career as a young secondary school teacher and his attraction to some of the boys he taught.
* In his autobiography, ''Escape from the Shadows'', Robin Maugham describes becoming aware that at his school various teachers, all male, were having sex with boy pupils of eleven or twelve. Some of the boys were OK with it. Some definitely weren't.
* Benjamin Britten, 40, living with a long-term gay partner his own age, needed a boy to sing the part of Miles in his new opera, ''The Turn of the Screw''. He found David Hemmings. Hemmings came to live with Britten for several months while he prepared for his role. Britten fell in love with the 12-year-old boy, who loved him back, but not that way. Even though they shared a bed sometimes, nothing ever happened. Britten had crushes on and friendships with various other boy singers of his.
* John Gambril Nicholson, a Victorian poet who wrote about almost nothing but boys, worked as an English teacher at various boys' schools and fell in love with several of his pupils, to whom he dedicated various of his books of poetry. Timothy d'Arch Smith notes of one such boy, Frank Victor Rushworth, 22 years younger than Nicholson, that "Nicholson's friendship with Victor began when the boy was thirteen. It was not altogether a happy relationship for it laboured under the usual difficulty that the boy was not able to respond to the ardour of Nicholson's passion."
* Wilfred Owen, killed in action at only age 25 himself, liked small boys as well as older teenagers. At age nineteen, while working as a vicar's assistant, he was asked to tutor twelve-year-old Vivian Rampton. Rampton was the intelligent eldest son of a working-class family and his mother hoped for him to get into a good school and make a better life for himself. Owen gave the boy lessons in music and literature and seems to have had a crush on him. When it was discovered that the pair were spending time together outside of the lessons, there seems to have been some kind of showdown with the vicar, which precipitated a personal and spiritual crisis of Owen's resulting in his leaving his job and semi-abandoning Christianity. Rampton got into a prestigious school and worked in a bank. Later, Owen worked as a tutor to the four de la Touche boys, one fourteen, one twelve and the youngest ten-year-old twins. He described the oldest boy as "pretty rather than handsome" and admitted having a favourite among them; we don't know which it was.
* Robert King, founder, artistic director and conductor of the celebrated period music ensemble The King's Consort, was convicted aged 46 for sex with boys of 12-16. The sex had happened when King was in his 20s; King had since married and had a kid. The boys were all at the time pupils of King's at a secondary school or music students referred to him by other teachers.
== Mutual Attraction ==
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