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I don't think female therapists are as susceptible to allowing male clients to make passionate love to them as male thereapists

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while this is strictly true in a factual sense
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national study found that 87% of the participants reported sexual attraction to at least one client; that 9.4% of men and 2.5% of women reported acting on such feelings

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the rate of either gender of therapist acting on such a thing is under 10%... that's pretty low for a group of people who routinely deal with clients who feel so strongly. i read just a couple months ago about a british T getting sued for having a relationship with a client... i wish i could find it because i followed some links in it and what i discovered was that although female T's were less likely (again, not big percentages) than males to act at all.. the female T's were doing some powerful damage because they were more likely to engage in longer term or ongoing relationships which were inappropriate. Many were living with the client whereas the males seemed to be more inclined to have a one-time thing.

and geez.. i feel like i am a broken record here, but erotic transference doesn't have a whole lot to do with gender... and yeah, i actually met a woman on another site who had it really bad for her female T and she was not gay.. talk about massive internal confusion! She had been so ashamed.

and somehow i keep getting the impression here that parental transference is somehow "safer" for the client than erotic transference. NO WAY JOSE. Not IMO anyway... the danger is in the balance of power and the vulnerability and suggestiveness of the client... a powerful parental tranference relationship can lead to a T having almost absolute power over a client and that can lead to a HUGE amount of inappropriate behaviours and damage.. the biggest one i see come up in my reading is borrowing money - you can see now what other possibilities there may be? The line between appropriate and inappropriate is more blurry IMO too... a T may have an easier time justifiying borrowing money than having wild sex.. no?

the gender is a personal choice.. not a safety barrier guys.. that part depends on the character of the T