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Add Alyssa Zinger To The Scaling Of Female Predatory Behavior Mess

Alyssa Zinger is a 23 year-old woman out of the Tampa area, who purportedly (she’s not yet convicted) posed as a 14 year-old girl online to meet boys, and then end up sexually assaulting them, including often filming it and taking photos — which is how she was caught. It seems like this case involves five to seven boys, and currently she’s denied bond.
Zinger was not a teacher and lured these boys via TikTok and Snapchat, but it’s part of a scaled trend recently whereby older females lure younger boys for sex:
This behavior is unfortunately nothing new and goes all the way up the “mom tree,” if you will:
I think there are a couple of things that need to be stated here, all-in:
- There is a prevailing societal mentality that a young boy cannot be “abused” by a woman, as the young boy would enjoy it: This is based on years of movies like The Graduate and even American Pie, or the lesser-known Secret of My Success. Plus: porn. The thing is, a 14 year-old boy might enjoy sleeping with a 30 year-old woman. I can’t really remember myself at age 14, but that seems like it would track as something that might seem cool at the time. However, it’s still illegal, and laws need to mean something — and, beyond that, a 14 year-old boy isn’t rational and brain-developed enough to truly consent to all this properly, and it’s quite likely going to f*ck up his future sexual and relational history in some way, if not many ways.
- Why do these women do it? This is the $1M question, and the answers vary deeply. I think the answer we default to most is “abused themselves,” and that might be the main…