Is it really a crime? I don't think I was ever the subject of such attention, and certainly never felt erotic toward any of my teachers.. but then I think I grew up as a very ordinary product of my environment.. which forbade such interactions, just like nearly everywhere these days. But we should not forget that throughout history, such interactions have not always been frowned upon.. and sometimes they produced high-achieving students of genius calibre regardless of what people may think of teacher-student sex today. We accept it today as almost completely and unassailably self-evident that such relationships are bad.. but why do we? I think it is mainly because we fear that some attractive students will be shown favouritism over others.. which is considered to be not a good thing in an allegedly merit-based economic system. There must be at least the pretense of fairness these days. |