The art teacher was painting 14-year-old students.........wait for it..........nude and...........wait for it again...........having sex with them. All in the spirit of good old-fashioned growing up in a Scottish private girls' school.
This was all part of the plot of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', which I just watched this evening after first seeing it in 1969. At the time, we all thought it was somewhat exciting, albeit dangerous, young girls having it off with the handsome, married-with-six-kids art teacher.
What were we thinking?! Probably that we knew teachers like that and suspected a few of the better-looking "mature" girls were up to something -- outside of their regular curricula that is. I also remember one of our young female gym teachers partying on the weekends with the senior football team! What did we think of it all? Titillating in a voyeuristic sort of way. That's how "normal" it all seemed back then. (I was going to say in more "innocent" times, but they weren't innocent at all.) Ironically, our mothers used to tell us never to get into cars with strange men, little suspecting the peril lay with men we knew and trusted.
As for Miss Brodie, she was having affairs with both the art teacher and another male teacher, while influencing "her girls" to grow up to be independent, strong young ladies.
Very bizarre to watch from the perspective of 2013. Disturbing.
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