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"Apparently you think it's OK for a female teacher to have sex with a male student. I find that very strange. Now let's hear about your attitude about a male teacher and a female student. Please explain if the two attitudes are different."

Like it or not there is a double standard. There is a reason for this. Boys and girls are not the same! For one thing girls can get pregnant. Boys can't.

If that were the only reason, it would be enough to explain the double standard but the attitude of boys that age towards sex are also clearly different from girls. Boys can, and do, have sex with absolutely no emotional attachment what so ever. With girls, this is usually not the case.

To sum up, male teachers having consensual sex with female students can cause both emotional and physical harm, (if she gets pregnant), to an underage female. Conversely, little or no harm is likely if a female teacher has consensual sex with an under age boy.

Because of these differences, there is a double standard. Most people understand this intuitively. Only feminists and others who like to pretend males and females are the same would argue otherwise.

"For one thing girls can get pregnant."

Condom + morning after pill. Now let's mention something else: sexually-transmitted disease. Both can be affected by that.

"If that were the only reason, it would be enough to explain the double standard"

How could that not be used to justify sex with pre-pubescant girls? If they too can't become pregnant, then sex with them is just the same as boys, yes? We both know different.

"little or no harm is likely if a female teacher has consensual sex with an under age boy."

This almost has to be a line from the NAMBLA handbook. Think about what you're trying to do: justify adult-child sexual relations. Have you already forgotten about the Mary Kay LeTourneau case? The boy she had sex with ended up so messed up, that at this point, he's essentially a failure in life with little chance of turning things around.

"Only feminists and others who like to pretend males and females are the same would argue otherwise."

I never said that boys and girls are the same. My argument is, and always has been, that those who violate age of consent laws should be prosecuted, and those who abuse a position of power should be fired and barred from any position of power. This applies to actual positions of power, such as therapist/patient, professor/student, teacher/student, and parent/child. Because of the position of power, it's extremely difficult for the person in the bottom position to refuse the demands of the top for sexual relations.