Sex Between Students & Professors in Psychology

Kenneth S. Pope, Hanna Levenson, and Leslie R. Schover have decided they just can’t leave worm cans unopened . . . Sex Between Students & Professors . . . note the numbers and differences when genders are compared:

In a nationwide survey of members of APA Division 29 (Psychotherapy) . . . 10% of the respondents reported sexual contact as students with their educators; 13% reported entering sexual relationships as educators with their students . . . . Gender differences were significant: 16.5% of the women, compared with 3% of the men, reported sexual contact as students; however, 19% of the men, compared with 8% of the women, reported such contact as psychology educators; and 12% of the males, compared with 3% of the females, reported sexual contact as psychotherapists with their clients. Sexual contact in psychology training programs seems to be increasing: 25% of the recent female graduates had had sexual contact, compared with only 5% of those with degrees for more than 21 years.

One out of four female recent graduates (six years or less) from university psychology programs has had sexual contact with a teacher. Now, considering the student-to-teacher ratio, then there are a few teachers out there who have been more than a whole lot busy. Men were the opposite on that count, with most who reported sex having it with clinical supervisors rather than teachers.

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