Too Much Irony

Surely many people remember the Long Island Lolita, Amy Fisher, the teenager who mixed it up with the self-styled Italian stallion, Joey Buttafuoco. She went on to shoot Joey's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face, get nabbed for attempted murder, and spend about seven years in the joint.

Probably just as memorable is the Seattle child rapist, Mary Kay Letourneau, who mixed it up with her 12-year-old elementary school student, Vili Faulaau. She went on to give birth to Faulaau's baby, get nabbed for child molestation, and spend about seven years in the joint.

Now Fisher writes a column for the Long Island Press with her latest being a general condemnation of adult-child sexual relationships with specific criticism of the media hype over the marriage of child rapist Letourneau to her former victim Faulaau.

As an aside, it's not clear what will happen next with Mr. and Mrs. Faulaau, but one thing seems certain. Studly, mid-20s Vili Faulaau will not find a nubile and receptive young bride at home offering years of intimate treasures. Rather, he'll be dueling with a tired and leathered complaint machine going through menopause.

Nonetheless, since Fisher was able to parlay her notoriety into a career in the mainstream media, is it possible that the public will some day be titillated by the Mary Kay Letourneau television show? Of course, Letourneau wouldn't condemn adult-child sex since she thinks it's just ducky, but she might enlighten everyone on how perverts cope.

Notably, as the victim in an adult-child sex relationship, Amy Fisher has apparently grown to become a rational adult who condemns predation on the young. On the other hand, Letourneau was the predator in the adult-child sex relationship which tore apart her family and put her in prison and, still, she thinks everything is okay. I predict that it's only a matter of time before young Vili grows up and realizes that his sixth-grade teacher was nuts and still is. Then, all the kings horses and all the kings men won't be able to put the duckiness back in the Letourneau-Faulaau love nest.