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When young Kiwi teacher Rachel Whitwell decided to pose nude for Australian Penthouse she wasn't thinking of the fame or the fortune.

She just wanted to annoy her boyfriend.

But the ploy has backfired badly, with saucy pics of Whitwell frolicking in a spa splashed across New Zealand papers, leaving both her career and her relationship in tatters.

This messy scenario can be explained by the fact that her boyfriend is New Zealand's notorious porn industry king, Steve Crow, producer and distributer of X-rated movies.

The pair had been dating for nearly two years and planned to marry. That was until Whitwell, 27, decided to test the 52-year-old's commitment by sending him a series of raunchy anonymous texts and Facebook messages.

"I wanted to prove to everyone who thinks he's a sleaze that they were wrong about him," she told New Zealand's Woman's Day.

The problem was he fell for it, flicking back enthusiastic messages and organising a rendezvous.

A distraught Whitwell confronted him and moved out of the couple's Auckland home, and sent her sexy photographs to the Aussie mag as a form of payback.

"Posting my pictures on the web was only meant to annoy Steve, because he always says he's not interested in going out with a nude model," the mother-of-one told the magazine.

"Nothing good has come out of it, because all it's done is leave me unsure and bitter."

Crow - who happily describes himself as a "bald, fat pornographer" - admits what he did was "monumentally stupid" but he said he was wholly unimpressed with Whitwell's attempt to trick him.

"I think the whole concept of the 'honey trap' is despicable and I've said to (Whitwell): 'If you throw the right bait at any fish, you'll catch it'," Crow told the magazine.

He said their relationship was "probably irreparable" and the damage done to Whitwell's career may be the same.

The New Zealand Teachers Council has taken serious issue with the photos, which include two nude and four topless shots.

They are investigating her foray into nude modelling with a view to striking her off the teaching register, a move she claims is "totally unnecessary".

"People will vouch I'm a really good teacher," she told a newspaper recently.

"My ability to teach and have good relationships with students is not affected."


© AAP 2009

Everybody gather 'round and give me a boost up so I can get on my high horse. I'm gon' enjoy this one!

Thank you kindly!

Now then...

Well, well, well now, so much wrongness here, I hardly know where to start!

Lets me see here...

But the ploy has backfired badly, with saucy pics of Whitwell frolicking in a spa splashed across New Zealand papers, leaving both her career and her relationship in tatters.

So she's surprised that when you pose nude for a national magazine, and they publish those pictures, that actually results in somebody at some point seeing the pictures?

"I wanted to prove to everyone who thinks he's a sleaze that they were wrong about him," she told New Zealand's Woman's Day.

Really? So you had absolute faith in him, and were just trying to help him out? How wonderfully generous and supportive of you!

...the mother-of-one told the magazine.

I'm sorry sweetheart, but once you've made a baby, your days of marrying porn kings old enough to be your father and posing for porno magazines are over. Or at least, they're supposed to be. Please, for the sake of us all, spend less time thinking about yourself and more time raising your kid.

"Nothing good has come out of it, because all it's done is leave me unsure and bitter."

Ah. So you were just an innocent babe in the woods, and this experience has fundamentally changed you. Got it.

Crow - who happily describes himself as a "bald, fat pornographer" - admits what he did was "monumentally stupid" but he said he was wholly unimpressed with Whitwell's attempt to trick him.

Attempt? What do you mean, "attempt?" I'd say her trickery was pretty darned successful, seeing as how you fell for it, and you're no-longer engaged.

"I think the whole concept of the 'honey trap' is despicable and I've said to (Whitwell): 'If you throw the right bait at any fish, you'll catch it'," Crow told the magazine.

Hey Crow:

YOU.

GOT.

CAUGHT!

This isn't a case of police misconduct where you get a free pass 'cause your barrister convinces the court that it was entrapment. You were given an opportunity to cheat, and proved that you would take advantage of such an opportunity. Is it your assertion that this is perfectly OK, and that any reasonable bride should just assume that if you don't happen to be cheating, it's 'cause the opportunity hasn't presented itself?

He said their relationship was "probably irreparable" and the damage done to Whitwell's career may be the same.

Ya think? I'll bet your sorry asses would get back together if there were starring roles in a reality TV show in it for you both.

"My ability to teach and have good relationships with students is not affected."

Can I be one of your students? Please? I do agree with you that your moral and intellectual failings need not affect our relationship.

Somewhere in here, there's a joke about the Penthouse Pet having a teacher's pet.

Or something.