(Decidedly Not) Hot for Teacher

I was hunting down the author of Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, and I decided to Google myself in the process. To my surprise, my personal homepage is the first "me" on the web, which is pretty cool (academia has its privileges, I guess). From my last run at this, I found that there are a few different people with my name out there including a porn actress, a horrid amateur poet, and someone who likes to fish (all of whom are not me). So, as I'm looking for myself, I find that I've got my first feedback on RateMyProfessors.com, which is pretty exciting. Turns out, I got some interesting ratings—they are as follows (out of 5):

Average Easiness: 3
Average Helpfulness: 4.3
Average Clarity: 4.7
Hotness Total: 0
Overall Quality: 4.5

Now, leaving aside the argument that some of these are poor criteria for picking an effective and engaging instructor (easiness?), what gives with the "0" for hotness? The academic part of me believes that "hotness" has no place in the classroom and that it could actually hinder my pedagogy. I'd never date my students, and I view my classroom as a safe learning environment where discussion of sex, when they do occur, are always contextual. Even so, the vain teenager in me cries foul. I know I don't bring hotness to class, but who's to say it isn't there? Somewhere? For the love of Christmas, can a woman at least get a .5!?! And, of course, the lawsuit-phobic part of me realizes that there have been a lot of "hot teachers" as of late, and they keep going to jail.

But, come to think of it, a lot of those teachers who are going to jail are conventionally hot. One would think that they wouldn't have problems finding people to go out with (except maybe the married ones). Even so, sleeping with an underage guy who you have a good measure of control over is wro-oong and is in a completely different ballpark than dating (or sleeping with) a peer. When the issue of "hotness" becomes an issue of "horniness," then, yeah, there's no way I'd want to appear to my students to be "on the make." Eww... not cool!

I guess the point of this post is that I'm doing my job correctly, and that should be of some satisfaction to me. And, as far as "hotness" is concerned, there's a time and a place for it. Now as for finding that time and place...