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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are all sorts of areas in which "consensual relationships" are still prohibited.  Siblings shouldn't sleep together.  A therapist shouldn't sleep with a patient -- even if it is consensual -- because it is extremely damaging to the patient.   There are plenty of such examples, and professors and students are one.  Professors have more than the power to grade.  They have decision-making power within their department and the college as a whole.  More prominent professors are catered to because they bring the school prestige and so they have even more power over the administration.  It happens, professors and students sleep together.  Most of the time it causes problems, sometimes horrendous problems.  Sometimes it doesn't.  But the fact that there are two consenting adults means nothing and is just a lazy way of avoiding an honest discussion of the issue.[/quote]

The analogy to incest is absurd and the therapist patient analogy isn't much better. The proper analogy is boss/subordinate, which is tricky, but not always inappropriate. A difference is that the student is often only a student if the professor for a few months of a class. Once the student is no longer in the professors class there is no problem. [/quote]

It wasn't an analogy, it was an example.  My point was that "consent" is not the only standard.  And professor-student relationships may not always result in problems, but they are always inappropriate.  And it goes beyond the classroom relationship.  the professor may be in the department of the student's major, or may have power within the university.  I've also seen a situation where the relationship distorted other student's experiences because of information that was shared back and forth, as well as collusion.

For all these reasons it shows incredibly poor judgment on the part of the professor.  I can't imagine a college that would accept this.[/quote]

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