Is Student Teacher Sex OK??? What about if the Student is at least 18?

[stormiestl]

This is a poll... I want your opinions. A law in Texas makes it a felony if a teacher has sex with a student regardless of age. So that means high school or college students can not have sex with their teachers or professors. A 25 year old female teacher is on trial for having sex with an 18 year old male student. She can get 25 years in prison for it. Is it right? Is it wrong? why?

Comments

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

There are those who would say that a teacher/student relationship is inherently abusive because of the power imbalance. However, I know many good couples that met while one was a college student and the other was an instructor.

It's certainly inappropriate to sleep with the person who's giving you your grades. It has the appearance of impropriety, if nothing else. Wait to date until you get out of that class, or request a transfer to a different class.

I'd say that the school would be well within its rights to fire her for unprofessional behavior, and I wouldn't object too strenuously to a law that made her lose her teaching license (if this occurred in a high school). But a felony? Prison? That's ridiculous.

[suchid.livejournal.com]

Relationships with students should be highly discouraged amongst educators for a myriad of reasons, including impropriety, allegations of unfair grading and the ability to mould a person that an educator has at that stage in a young person's life. Is it improper? Yes. Is it illegal? No.

Now, 17 and below, and we're into a different territory.

These days I'm an educator

[duc-de-duras.livejournal.com]

It's amazing the amount of unconscious control you exert over those who are there to be taught. The simple fact is that even if you aren't aware you're doing it you are influencing them unfairly.

Student teacher relationships are taboo for a reason the unconscious influence of the teacher on the student is to great for one to really consider.

That being said, criminalization of such things begins to be a problem. Have they done something that makes them a threat to society? No. However they have behaved in such a way that the teacher should be removed from their role.

So now we look at http://www.ageofconsent.com/ where we see what the societies standards are for sexual contact. I doubt that such a law is going to stand up as a double standard for consent given that the age of consent in texas is 17. Where did you get the information that this law exists?