There's another story circulating in the Buddhasphere about a teacher sexually exploiting some of his female students. This one is a little different in that the exploiting has been going on for about fifty years.
Fifty years.
The teacher is now in his seventies, and is still apparently able to seduce, threaten and/or coerce female students into having sex with him.
I'll be damned if I know how.
I'm trying to not be glib about this. It's serious business. But I can't imagine what power a gnarly 70-year-old zen geezer with a shaved head could have over women that would lead them to have sex with him, especially since they seem to regret it almost immediately afterward. Am I just naive?
This is obviously not just a Buddhist thing. David Koresh. Jim Bakker. Cedric Miller, who was doing threesomes at Bible study. Earl Paulk, whose nephew and successor was later revealed to be his son from an affair he had with his sister-in-law. Some of these guys were charismatic, in the secular sense of the word, but others were just oily little snerts from the get-go.
And yet, somehow...
I simply don't get it.
Then again, there are apparently women who have fucked Newt Gingrich. So I guess anything's possible.
4 comments:
Very curious....are you speaking of the guy from the old San Francisco Zen Center, the acolyte of Sushi Roshi? (Can't remember his name. He is in Colorado now.) If so, that amazes me, too.
why are some elderly women rape victims?
doctors/patients, lawyers/clients, the cop who won't take you to jail if he gets a bj.
It's not seduction and it's not even really about sex; it's about power and control.
Perhaps his kung-fu is strong.
Really, really strong.
It's a different guy. He's in New York.
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