Exploitative Sex

We have ignored, thus far, the numerous sex scandals in the US involving teachers and/or school children. To be sure, these are matters of great concern, but are a product of a society steeped in hypocrisy and double standards.
Contrast this against a poor rural and devoutly Muslim district of Indonesia, where aberrant sex is not just a scandal; it invites severe ostracism and punishments.
The Indonesian ‘scandal’ was made public after a teacher reported to the media that 11 students and a teacher were expelled from the senior high school after they were found to have been involved in an orgy in a classroom during which some of the students were reported to have kissed each other and had oral sex in the classroom. (SEX SCANDAL ROCKS WEST JAVA)
Sources at the school said a teacher, who was also a school counsellor, summoned two students, after they were caught smoking in a classroom. As the two young girls were reprimanded and labelled slutty by the teacher, in an act of defiance they revealed that many more students in the school and also a teacher there had been involved in prostitution.
Fortunately the Indonesian legal system is based on an amalgam of Roman-Dutch law, custom and Islamic law. Fortunate, because there is a good deal more latitude to deal with behaviour of this type in a reasonable way, depending of course on the local religious climate.

Still, regardless of cultures, there is the wider issue of authority and responsibility. As far as young people are concerned, adults be they teachers, parents or priests, have an unquestionable duty of care.
We might reasonably expect that children and young adults will have some difficulty separating fantasy and acceptable behaviour as they experiment with the world around them. There is simply no such leeway for adult/authority lapses.
The double standards, bred out of puritan mores and religiosity, cause enough grief in the adult world. It breeds an inability, by some in society, to accept that the private behaviour of consenting adults should be just that, private. At the same time, it ignores the treal problem at issue, exploitative sex.
What I cannot understand is the reluctance of these people to attack ‘exploitative’ sex with the same passion and venom as they do with their view of 'imoral' sex.
I cannot claim to be an expert on this, but it has been long understood, that ‘exploitative’ sex is essentially about power and control. Doubtless the raging against homosexuals and adulterers, or whatever ‘consenting adults’ activities they choose, is a manifestation of feelings of powerlessness in these attackers.
Given our societies obsession with underage sex, perhaps the issue and potential is just too close to the surface to allow for close scrutiny.
There is a problem in all this is defining underage and maturity. These are, by any measure, subjective concepts. They are confused by the sometimes, apparent, maturity of a young person. It is forgotten that these ‘pups’ are simply role playing at being mature, part of the learning and growing process.
It seems both children and adults are equally susceptible to confusion over the role of sex in our lives; the potential beauty of sexuality in a fulfilled and fulfilling relationship.
As adults, it must be our role to protect the vulnerable. That, in part at least, overcomes question of maturity. This is bsis of fighting any public corruption; because it exploits the vulnerable.

I can, almost, accept the pleas of some who claim they were victims as well. Not victims of the children, however, but of society’s inability to come to grips with the fundamentals of sexuality.
For the sake of the vulnerable, the exploited, let’s start getting some real sense into this discussion.
Children learn all too soon, the rudiments of sex. In teaching the realities, the wonders and it’s place in our lives and relationships, we might begin to teach ourselves something of the issue as well.