The 22-time grand slam doubles champion Pam Shriver says she had an “inappropriate and damaging relationship” with her coach which started when she was a teenager, and has warned that similar scenarios are commonplace in tennis.
Only read the headline here, but what was the legal age of consent back when she was 17? In the vast majority of US States even today, 17 is already past the legal age of consent.
aww, she told a 50 yr old man that she loved him, seduced him, and now is crying foul!
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ReplyDeleteat least in Shriver's case, she initiated it
Nope!
ReplyDeleteNope what?
ReplyDeletewhich part are you denying, that Shriver initiated the romance with her mentor?
she initiated
ReplyDeletepoor married man couldn't control himself once she said she loved him
What did he say to her?
Wow you are adding claims not made in article
ReplyDeletedoesnt say she seduced him
ReplyDeleteShe does say that he didn't abuse her.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't mean she seduced him!
ReplyDeleteit's unethical, but this was the 70s, when arayos were in full swing, no fears as even AIDs had not been invented.
ReplyDeletehere are further quotes from another article:
ReplyDeleteShriver revealed their relationship became sexual when she was 20 but added there was no sexual abuse.
However, Shriver did say there was emotional abuse and it left
consequences. In an interview with ESPN's Outside The Lines, Shriver
further detailed how "miserable" she felt at times. “I felt a lot of
shame and guilt,” Shriver told OTL.“I felt also a lot of anger,
jealousy when his wife would come to tournaments. So it was just
basically, at times really miserable. “And because I was, you know,
living the life of trying to be the best tennis player I could be, I
really didn’t understand how difficult the secret and the juggling was
https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/WTA_Tennis/112702/us-tennis-legend-pam-shriver-details-inappropriate-relationship-with-excoach/
It is hard to pin the blame on the man, that is not to say he was innocent, but she was an adult when it happened.
Only read the headline here, but what was the legal age of consent back when she was 17? In the vast majority of US States even today, 17 is already past the legal age of consent.
ReplyDeleteShe said she waited till 20 before consummating their sordid affair.
ReplyDeleteArayos are still in full swing.
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