I was molested by a teacher when I was 14 going on 15.

Artists must face the legal, moral, social, and financial implications of their art. They are humans and we all share this world. None of us can do whatever the hell we want. All actions have consequences. Some of these consequences may stifle some peoples art. This is reality. Sometimes it is a good thing and…

No one said you can't feel guilt and shame at any age. But the "guilt and shame" in this case are clearly correlative with the fact that "real-life 'Marie,'...felt taken advantage of" due to the power dynamic between student and teacher, which is also related to her age at that time.

Good grief you're messed up. You do realize the girl in question had absolutely no say in the matter about whether or not this thing was published? Even if you want to try to give her blame in the matter (which is, again, all kinds of messed up, considering he was an authority figure), it's still disgusting that this…

Just to make sure we read the same article: an adult male, age 33, a teacher in a position of trust, was fucking a 17 yr old female student, got her pregnant, she had an abortion, he lost his job, writes a book about it and exposes the girl to ridicule and infamy.

I seriously doubt he was naive enough to believe that if his book achieved any modicum of success, his background was not going to come out. Not only am I willing to bet that he knew it was a very high possibility, but he was also calculating enough to understand that by giving it a charmingly self-deprecating title…

I can't tell if you're serious..because if you are that's all sorts of fucked up.

Thanks—I was wondering how, other than not buying or reading this azzwhipe's book, some justice might be had. Hopefully there will be quite a few people who will come out of the woodwork with fangs out for this scum. Not that you have fangs, though if you did and used them on him, without any Twilightish magic, it…

I think what disgusts a lot of us is his setting up the victim as the predator and himself as the confused, sympathetic character- through the thoughts and words of the character based on the victim no less! It's like he's trying to rewrite history. Never mind that he wrote it as fiction- he is still rewriting…

I had a similar experience in high school with a teacher who I later discovered seduced several girls at our school. Thankfully I never slept with him and it only went as far as flirtatious talk and one kiss.

THIS. There's a difference between "he's allowed to write it" and "writing it doesn't make him an even more horrible person". Of course he's legally and artistically ALLOWED to write it. But Haystacks is dead-on in calling it an emotionally abusive act. PARTICULARLY because he didn't just write it and airbrush the…

Marie would always know. And isn't that all that really matters? How many times is he planning on going to the victimization trough with her? Is she going to have to be looking over her shoulder for the rest of her life waiting for this guy to mine her life some more so he can pay the rent?

A couple years ago everyone was pissed that a bunch of fictional books like 'A Million Little Pieces' were presented as non-fiction. But no one is upset that a non-fiction book is being presented as a fiction?

I know that whenever a teenager presses me to do something, I immediate consent because I have no free will whatsoever...

But it's not a memoir, and he's telling "his" story from the girl's perspective to basically forgive himself any wrongdoing. He's literally putting words in her mouth.

This is different not only because of the age/power dynamic, but because he wrote the story from HER perspective. Did Adele and Taylor Swift try to justify unethical behavior by writing from the perspective of someone they took advantage of and pretending that person was actually grateful for the experience? Taylor…

I'm always amazed at just how innocent and helpless adults are — especially adult males — and how predatory and overpowering teenagers are.

But this isn't Malsik writing about how his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend was a meanypants and broke his heart; it's an account of something he did that was unequivocally inappropriate because of the teacher-student relationship, if not illegal due to age and he's casting himself as some kind of blameless hero for it. …

God, Glee has the WORST teacher-student interactions. I love that show, but Schu creeps me out hardcore (really? You're going to be the Creature in Rocky Horror, with your STUDENTS? And that doesn't seem at all, you know, inappropriate?) There was one episode recently where a student asked Coach Bieste if she was a…

Most teenagers have very little perspective or history how to view teachers like this.