Why are professors increasingly portrayed in the popular culture as lecherous cads out to bed admiring grad students? This question is addressed at length by William Deresiewicz, an associate professor of English at Yale, in an essay in The American Scholar.
Dan Drezner -- or more accurately, Drezner's "Official Blogwife" -- has another explanation: "The reason professors sleep with their students in fiction is because any realistic portrayal of your jobs would bore readers out of their skulls within 10 minutes."
