Teacher-Student Romance: Difference between revisions

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== Hot for Teacher ==

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' featured a 4th grade girl, Rika Sasaki, in a relationship with her homeroom teacher, Yoshiyuki Terada. Yeah. To their credit, the manga made it clear they'll be waiting until they're married before they actually ''do'' anything sexually intimate (which would be at the age of at least 16 in Japan), and the anime made the crush [[Precocious Crush|completely one-sided on the girl's part]].

** Also, the main characters parents. In a subversion they met when Nadeshiko was in high school and Fujitaka was working there as a teacher, and it was [[Love At First Sight]]... but they got married only after her graduation.

* A Hentai/Romance manga called "Teacher and Student" by artist Fuuga revolves around the budding relationship between a student and his teacher when an eviction causes them to move in together. Interestingly, there's a good deal of focus on their own concerns about the relationship, as opposed to being worried about what others will think. {{spoiler|subverted in that by the end, she's resigned and is no longer his teacher.}}

* The X-Men have a few of these. Emma Frost's [[Backstory]] miniseries has a teenage Emma developing a crush on her art teacher—and when her mind-reading powers set in, she learns that he's attracted to her as well. Emma's [[Magnificent Bastard]] of a father gets the teacher fired (and forbids him from ever seeing Emma again). They later meet again when Emma ends up attending a college where he is teaching. There the teacher, Emma, her telepathic roommate, and Emma's new best friend get involved in a love rectangle where the roommate telepathically manipulates the best friend into accusing the teacher of sexual advances in order to remove the two people standing between her and Emma. In response to this revelation, Emma mind wipes her roommate, then uses her own psychic power to hijack her best friend's mind and make everyone think she's a lying, crazy stalker. Afterwords, Emma confesses to the teacher what she did in order to protect him, in the name of being honest with the man she loves in hopes that he would not hold it against her in the event he wanted to begin a relationship with her at last. Unfortunately, finding out that Emma was a mutant AND had used her psychic powers to get her best friend labeled insane causes him to reject Emma, turning her into the cold-blooded villain she would become.

* Multiple stories in ''[[Cherry Comics]]'' feature Cherry or one of her friends having sex with a teacher.

* In ''[[Gold Digger]]'', Gina's [[Action Mom|mother]] reminisces with a friend about their martial arts teacher. One night, the friend was about to sneak into her teacher's quarters to bare her soul (among other things) to him, only to find that several of his other students had the exact same idea. Naturally, a fight broke out.

=== Literature ===

* In another of Paterson's books, ''Jip: His Story'', the eleven-year-old protagonist has similar feelings for his (female) teacher.

* Of all places, this shows up in ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', with ''dragons''. Saphira approaches the older male dragon mentoring her (they're apparently the [[Last of His Kind|last of their kind]], BTW), but he isn't interested. Then she gets nasty...

* A lesser-known example: "High School Confidential" by Rough Trade.

* The hit "Forelska i lærern" (literally, "In love with the teacher") by the Norwegian band "The Kids" (not to be confused with the Belgian band of the same name).

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Lilly had feelings for her English tutor in the past, and turned down her many [[Love Confession|love confessions]] to save herself for him, but knew that she could never have him, and never confessed. Hisao thinks of such relationships as "taboos born of such things as purity and youth," and is glad Lilly never acted on it.

* In ''[[Red String]]'', Sayuri Morita develops a crush on Igarashi-sensei when he's the only one who listens to her, is nice to her, etc. She attempts to kiss him when he's asleep in his office but chickens out, and then goes for it when they're singing karaoke together. He rebuffs her since, unfortunately for her, he's too professional to ever pursue such a relationship . . . and he's gay.

* In a [http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20101013 guest-strip] for ''[[Bad Machinery]]'', Mildred has a dream about her teacher, Ryan Beckwith.

== Hot for Student ==

* It's implied that Komoe-sensei of ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' has a crush on Touma. For added [[squick]], she looks like a little girl.

* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]] Deluxe'' when Hare tries to cheer up his scary [[Mood Swinger|Mood swinging]] substitute teacher after her attempted relationship with his regular teacher fails, she turns her attention to him to Hare's horror.

* In the ''[[Blue Drop]]''[[Manga]], some of the all female race Arume run various girls' schools that double as their lesbian harems.

* In ''[[Futaba-Kun Change!]]'', Sabuyama-sensei has a completely one-side crush on the male Futaba and is disgusted when a female student with the same name as his beloved (actually the same person) joins the class.

* [[Boys Love]] example: Atsushi from ''[[Kusatta Kyoushino Houteishiki]]'' (''Equation of the Perverted Teacher'') has been infatuated with Masami aka Ma-chan, his neighbor and caretaker, for years. He transfers to his new highschool and finds Ma-chan... or so he thinks, as the guy he thinks it's Ma-chan is actually Ma-chan's older brother, Masayoshi, who works as the school nurse and basketball coach.

* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'' manga, the [[Camp Gay]] substitute teacher for Sōsuke's high school's men's swim team is shown to have the hots for Sōsuke. [[Even the Guys Want Him|Not that anyone can blame him]]. He is shown blushing and drooling over Sōsuke's body, and is very obviously jealous and shocked when he interprets Kaname's "I work well with Sōsuke because we have a bond" as being that they've done it.

* In ''[[Gokusen]]'', [[Evil Teacher]] Miura falls for Shin. Busty teacher Fujiyama makes much of her lust for her hot students but we never actually see her do anything.

* In ''[[Durarara!!]]'', Prof. Nasujima has a rather obvious thing for his student Anri. In his case, however, it's more of an indication that he's a giant creep than a case of forbidden love (especially since it's implied that Anri is hardly his first in this regard).

** It's shown that his first relationship with a student was mutually consensual, but seriously unhealthy, and he was the one to quit it since the girl was even a bigger creep than he, and he was seriously afraid for his safety. He really should have learned his lesson that time, considering Anri's big secret.

* ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!]]'': [[Ho Yay|Gunter toward Yuuri]].

* One of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Professor Xavier's]] deepest secrets was that he was in love with Jean Grey as a student. His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Onslaught, was all too happy to share this with her, much to Jean's horror.

* [[Spider-Man|Professor Miles Warren]] was infatuated with his student [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|Gwen Stacy]], but refused to admit it, convincing himself that he saw her as the daughter he never had. Her death sent him off the deep end and led to the story that would, decades later, be revived as [[The Clone Saga]], thus proving that teachers falling for students can never lead to anything good.

=== Films ===

* One of the professors in ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' makes repeated passes at his much younger female students, though he's always politely turned down.

* ''De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen'' (''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short''). A teacher at girls' high school, middle-aged and married with a small daughter of his own, is madly in unrequited love with one of his teenage pupils and is heartbroken when she graduates. {{spoiler|It's implied that years later the memory of his love is one of the things that drive him possibly crazy.}}

* ''Le souffle au cœur'' (''Murmur of the Heart''). Laurent, 14 and a half, is in confession when his priest and teacher makes a pass at him. Laurent asks to go back to class. The priest, annoyed, gives him an excessive penance: thirty Hail Marys. The priest seems to have a reputation for making passes at the boys. However, during the private lessons he later gives a convalescent Laurent nothing much, if anything, happens.

=== Literature ===

=== Live Action TV ===

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''

** [[Word of God]] states that Professor Maggie Walsh had feelings for Riley. Seeing as he views her more as a mother figure - and she's completely deranged - this is exceedingly creepy. It's even creepier when you remember that she {{spoiler|was experimenting on Riley too.}} It was extra super creepy that she watched Buffy and Riley have sex from a video camera installed in his room, then decided to have Buffy killed off. Call that lady [[Squick|Queen Squick]].

* In ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Veronica defends one of her favorite teachers against a claim of this. She goes through the girl's diary, and checks the dates, and so gets him off. {{spoiler|She then finds out that it was all true, and that the girl who said she was his lover was really a friend of the actual girl, and she did get pregnant and so wasn't in school. Veronica then got him fired.}}

* In Series 3 of ''[[Skins]]'' {{spoiler|Kieran makes an unsuccessful move on Naomi, his student.}}

* Although never outright stated, the very fact that the [[Beware the Nice Ones|supposedly sweet]], [[The Ingenue|seemingly wholesome]] Selena Coombs of ''[[American Gothic]]'' is in fact a [[Femme Fatale]], [[Hot Librarian]], and [[Evil Teacher]] all rolled into one makes speculation about this trope inevitable. There are certainly more than a few moments where seeing this ravishing, suggestively dressed, beautiful woman speaking to her class of grade schoolers in that sultry Southern drawl left this editor feeling...[[Squick|uncomfortable]]. It doesn't help that the actress in question almost seemed aware of this fact, since she almost always focused her attention on the young boys in her classroom. Somewhat justified in Caleb's case, since Buck wanted her to keep an eye on his 'son'...but even there, considering [[Sex Is Evil|what one of the best ways to corrupt Caleb would be]], scenes of closeness between the two [[Freud Was Right|appear to have a deeper meaning]]... One lost episode, however, does offer an aversion of this. In "The Potato Boy", Ms. Coombs invites Caleb to her house, all alone, for 'special tutoring' ...but once there, {{spoiler|she ends up confessing her [[Backstory|tragic past]], crying in Caleb's lap, and taking comfort from him in a purely platonic, if unexpected way, almost doing a [[Heel Face Turn]] because of it.}} Actually a very touching, surprising bit of [[Character Development]]. (Which was then [[Kudzu Plot|promptly forgotten about]] [[Snap Back|for the rest of the series]].)

** There also was an episode involving this teenage guy and his hot older teacher. The guys congratulate him, but the SVU team wags their fingers no and try to separate them. It was sort of heartbreaking actually, considering the arm-twisting they did to her so she'd stay away from him.

** Another episode had a teacher admitting to having sex with one of his students, but claimed it was consensual while said student accused him of raping her. They never quite tell us if it was a case of Hot For Student or a mutual attraction, and ended it just before the verdict is read. This was intentional to show how ambiguous these cases are when it's only he said/she said. They later held an on-line poll to see how people would have ruled if they had been on the jury: Not Guilty was the winner.

** Yet another SVU has a male High School teacher getting arrested for having relations with one of his students. He's put through the normal wringer until it's revealed that the "student" was actually in her 20's and faking being a teenager due to an inability to face growing up.

* In ''[[Caprica]]'', one of her husbands asks Clarice if the reason she invited Lacy to dinner was to make her another wife. It isn't; however it's hinted that the reason he asked this is because she's done this before.

* In the British soap opera, ''Hollyoaks'', secondary school teacher, Becca Dean falls in love and embarks on an affair with a teenage student, Justin Burton.

== Mutual Attraction ==

* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' plays this trope straight with the relationship between Miki's best friend Meiko Akizuki and her teacher Shinichi Namura. Also one of the few times a match up like this is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, specially due to [[Star-Crossed Lovers|the crap they go through]]. {{spoiler|And they ''do'' get [[Happily Married]] by the end of the series -- the last episode of the anime series features their wedding party.}}

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''

* The central relationship in ''[[Suki: A Like Story]]'', also by [[CLAMP]], is teacher-student as well.

* In ''[[Chobits]]'', a secondary main character (the protagonist's friend), ends up marrying off their [[Cram School]] teacher saving her from a shaky relationship with her husband. Though in this case he was a 18-19 [[Ronin]] and she was in her mid-twenties and therefore this wasn't as iffy as usual for a CLAMP case of this trope.

* The ''raison d'etre'' of ''[[Please Teacher]]''.

** With the justification that the main character had a strange medical condition that, at one point, left him in a coma long enough that his body didn't age for three years - leaving him chronologically 18 though mentally (and physically) still 15. This is less of a justification for the age difference (Mizuho's age being undisclosed), and more to enable Kei to marry and live with with Mizuho legally. Ironically, the issue seems less about the age difference and more about her being Kei's teacher, making their romance an awkward situation the two are called upon to conceal as it is a breach of the school's professional propriety.

* In the classic anime ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' the beautiful widow Otonashi Kyoko née Chigusa successfully married her high school teacher, Otonashi Soichiro.

* ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]'' features a minor plot involving Yuki Urakawa, a girl who's in a relationship with her science teacher. {{spoiler|Though it turns out that he's just using her to test out the drug that awakens the latent powers of the descendants of celestial maidens.}}

* A high school romance is the main storyline of the Korean comic ''[[Unbalance x Unbalance]]''. It has the younger male student and the older female teacher dynamic. It's more of a [[Will They or Won't They?]] thing so far, but still. There's also [[Les Yay]] version of this in the [[Manhwa]].

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Kyoko married Katsuya just after he finished being a student teacher there.

** Then introduced another pair shortly before Satou graduated: Suzuki (Satou's friend, who is generally a cool and somewhat shy guy, but is likewise avoided by everyone, due to being ''huge'', even though he's at least a year younger, and having a bad case of [[Face of a Thug]] Syndrome) and Matsukaze sensei (a nice teacher… and a friend of Kojima… to whom she lent a book [[Through His Stomach|on matters of romance and cooking]]) who decided to share a lunch with him. Which likewise almost immediately led to an Ecchi-grade wacky accident.

* In ''New X-Men: Academy X'', [[The Medic|Josh Foley]] aka [[Healing Hands|"Elixir"]] has a secret relationship with Rahne "Wolfsbane" Sinclair, who is one of the youngest teachers at the Institute (being only 19, to Josh's 16). What was really disturbing about it was that Josh had a not-secret girlfriend his own age ([[Naive Everygirl|Laurie Collins]] aka [[The Ingenue|"Wallflower"]]) ''[[Your Cheating Heart|at the same time.]]''

* Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel ''[[Fun Home]]'' centered around her closeted gay father, a high school English teacher who over the years had affairs with his students and at one point underwent a trial for buying beer for one of them. She noted that though the offense was for buying alcohol for minors, the real offense "dare not speak its name." As Bechdel is a lesbian herself, she at one point wonders how she would have fared if she came of age in the repressive 50s like her father did... "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"

=== Fan Works ===

=== Films -- Live Action ===

* The Chinese wuxia novel ''Return of the Condor Heroes'' has Yang Guo, a young rogue martial arts student, falling in love with his master, Xiao Long Nu. The issue, however, was less of age than it was of position; in those times, it was traditional for students to revere and respect their masters in the same way one would a parent. Society's inability to accept their relationship plays a very important part in their romance.

* In ''Cat's Eye'' by Margaret Atwood, the main character Elaine {{spoiler|has an affair with her art teacher, Josef.}}

** To make it slightly less creepy, he was very disapproving of how she was behaving, and was quite torn-up and confused about the fact that he loved her as well - he'd just had a child with his wife and he didn't want to ruin his marriage. When the two of them are discovered, they both lie about what happened so that he wouldn't lose his job (they claim that the crush was one-sided and that he was trying to let her down gently) and it's implied that they break up.

* This trope is all over ''Claudine at School''; it's a wonder the oversexed staff get any work done. Claudine originally falls for teaching assistant Aimee, who gets snatched by the scary new Headmistress Mademoiselle Sergent. Sergent tells Claudine she was attracted to her to begin with. The singing master Monsieur Rabastens fancies Claudine; she plays up to him when there's nothing better to do ... No wonder the school's described as a 'filthy den of tittle-tattle'.

* Used many times in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.

** When Wesley first appears in the third season, he and Cordelia circle each other. In fact, when they first met he assumed she was a teacher (possible [[Lampshade Hanging]] on the [[Dawson Casting]]), but heavy awkwardness ensues when he realized she was a student, and he promptly drops the subject. Though it is brought up a few times with him ogling her, and the episode where Buffy read minds. She was hinted at being seventeen as Faith teases him, saying "Jailbait". She evidently had a birthday before the prom though, when Giles informs Wesley she's 18. Wesley has a first dance with her, and they share a hilariously awkward kiss that obliterates half a season of romantic tension, and never brought it up again. Even three years later in the alternate universe of the ''Angel'' episode "Birthday," Wesley and Cordy still remember what a flop their "relationship" was and quickly change the subject when Gunn mentions it.

** At first Buffy's relationship with Riley ''should'' fit, or at least border on, this trope—in real life, some universities consider it ''very'' dodgy for a freshman to date ''any'' graduate student, let alone the TA of a class you're in.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' defended a teacher who slept with her student in a [[Ripped from the Headlines]] case.

* On ''Swingtown,'' Laurie Miller is ferociously pursuing her hot teacher Mr. Stephens. He discourages her affection and when they do get together, they avert the trope since he's not her teacher any more..

* ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' had Pacey and his English teacher have an affair. Most of the adults involved took it seriously, while Pacey's friends, though somewhat disbelieving, didn't see anything wrong with it. Considering that they were teenagers and their friend seemed happy, that's fairly realistic no matter what the genders involved.

* Happened in ''[[Soap]]'' with Billy and his teacher. [[Contrived Coincidence|She just happens to leave her job at the school right as he turns eighteen]], but the relationship ''still'' doesn't last. Oh, and ''he'''s the one who breaks it off {{spoiler|(which causes her to become a [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]])}}.

* ''[[Grange Hill]]''.

* In the UK ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' Stuart narrates to camera how he lost his virginity to his (male) PE teacher. When he was ''eleven''.

* In Season Four of ''[[One Tree Hill]]'', Brooke Davis enters into relationship with Nick Chavez, whom she met online, who later turns up as her new English teacher at Tree Hill High. They continue dating, in secret until it is revealed that he has cheated on her.

** Both these relationships do establish Scully's obvious "type" and might partially explain her attraction to Mulder. In "En Ami", [[Big Bad]] CGB Spender points out that Scully is attracted to powerful men, but fear their power.

* In the ''[[30 Rock]]'' episode "Queen of Jordan", Susan Sarandon plays Frank's former teacher, who was in a relationship with him when he was 14. Surprisingly(considering the [[Double Standard]]), based on Frank's apparent age and the fact that the teacher was only recently released from prison, it appears that she served a significantly longer sentence than is typically associated with female-teacher/male-student cases.

* ''[[Little Britain]]'' had Edward and Samantha Grant, a teacher and his former student who were now married, although it's never revealed whether they had begun their relationship while Samantha was still at school.

* On ''[[Degrassi]]'' Sav and his teacher kiss.

** However, we found out that the Mother was also in that economics class, though Ted would not date her until much later.

* Michael and Nikita on ''[[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]]'' pre-Series, although flashbacks occur. Michael was Nikita's instructor during her time at Division. They fall in love with each other although their relationship doesn't progress until the start of the current series 3 years after Nikita escaped from Division and Michael is the one hunting her.

* [[ABBA|"I was in a trance... When I kissed the teacher...?]]

* [[Venom (band)|Venom]] has made a few [[Intercourse with You]] songs on the subject like "Teacher's Pet".

* ''Don't Let Me Get Me'' by [[P!nk]] at one point says she had a relationship with her teacher. In the video, it shows said teacher in the front of the class looking suggestively at her.

* In the [[H-game]] ''Heart de Roommate'', the hero can start a relationship with his homeroom teacher, Yoshiko. The school ends up finding out about it and they are forced to stay away from each other until the end of the year. The weirdest part? ''Yoshiko got in trouble for being in a relationship with a student before.''

* We're just gonna make it easy or ourselves and say that if one of the major female characters in an H-game is a teacher, you have a very good chance of getting a shot at her.

* In the [[Dating Sim]] ''True Love'', one of the [[Chivalrous Pervert]] male lead's possible girlfriends is his young and beautiful teacher. {{spoiler|Curiously, to get her attention you need to save ''another'' girl from a [[Near-Rape Experience]]}}

* ''Sims 2: University'', like any Sims game, lets you have sex ("Woo Hoo") with anyone, if you get your relationship with them high enough. This includes university professors, who are Sims that can be invited on dates or to one's home... and incidentally, doing so will increase a Sim's grades.

** Reportedly he said; 'All right, if you're sure, I'll be the first.' and she thought; 'And the last.' So far he has been.

** He has a daughter from a previous marriage who is the same age as Celine.

* At age eleven, Gavin Lambert had his first sex with the music teacher at his school. Lambert grew up to be a gay writer and said he felt "nothing but gratitude" to the teacher for his sexual initiation.

* John Ruskin, the eminent Victorian art critic, social thinker and philanthropist, and Rose La Touche, twenty-nine years younger. Ruskin was engaged to teach Rose art when she was nine. He seems to have fallen in love with her when she was about eleven. They exchanged many affectionate notes. He proposed to her when she was seventeen and again when she came of age, but she refused because of their religious differences. She may have been anorexic, insane or both, and she died at age twenty-seven, which set off Ruskin's own bouts of madness.

* One episode of ''[[Shark]]'' involves characters theorizing that the motive a boy had for the murder of his father involved a sexual relationship with his art teacher. Stark quotes the public official alluded to a the top of this article. {{spoiler|The theory was inaccurate.}}

* One episode of ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' addressed the [[Double Standard]] of this trope.

* Subverted in ''10 Things I Hate About You''; in order to shed her 'good-girl' image, Bianca fakes a rumor about her relationship with an older man, who is later though to be the Geometry teacher, Mr. Ross. Things go too far, of course, and nobody believes that Bianca was lying. {{spoiler|Mr. Ross never heard the rumor, but was revealed to, in fact, have a relationship with ''another'' girl, and sent to prison.}}

* ''[[Medium]]'': Indirectly causes a lot of emotional stress for psychic teen Ariel Dubois: {{spoiler|Her college interviewer's dead husband fathered a child with one of his students, and asks Ariel to erase the file with incriminating photos on his (now his wife's) computer in exchange for a perfect interview with his wife. Ariel does so, but then decides to do the right thing and restore the file. The interviewer returns to tell Ariel that she's going to help the baby financially, but unfortunately for Ariel's future she also thinks that she planted the file after being dumped by her husband. Even the dead husband is stunned despite knowing what would happen.}} ''The very next episode,'' Ariel starts losing time ''[[Futurama]]''-style, jumping hours, then ''years'' into the future where she's [[Happily Married]] to a friend from high school and they have an adorable daughter. {{spoiler|She's certain the time-skips have to do with a teacher who was murdered right before the decade-long jump, and right before her mom is about to tell her how the teacher's kid ties into all this, she's thrown ahead another seven years -- where her mother is ''dead'', killed that same night. Desperate for answers, she goes to see the dead teacher's son, who's ''the spitting image of high school sweetheart husband '''who's about to kill her''''' -- and then she wakes up, safe in the present and a few hours before her teacher's murder by her teenage babydaddy (he had a full-ride scholarship and wasn't about to risk it for his desperate ex-lover).}} Needless to say, after all that Ariel really, really needs a hug.

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'' Milla jokingly calls Raz a "flirt" when he attempts to suck up to her.

* Parodied in ''[[Brutal Legend]]''. The [[Naughty Nuns|Battle Nuns]] are latex-clad demonic nuns who talk like very, very naughty teachers to their demonic servants.