---In [email protected], <jamesalan735@...> wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students
---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : While it may be impossible to enforce this completely, I still think that the basic idea is good because of "power differentials." It is probably impossible at a public school to enforce a rule that forbids faculty from dating adult students or from having sexual relations with them. While I agree that this rule is a good idea if the student is in the teachers class, it's common knowledge that many adjunct faculty at public colleges fraternize with students all the time. It's so common that they made a popular TV sitcom about it - Community with Chevy Chase. Same as with spiritual teachers. If the person you're going to bed with has the ability to fail you in class or throw you out of the ashram, it can be argued that consent is never fully mutual, and that some level of coercion always is present. While this sounds reasonable in theory, it's sometimes not so easy in practice. When you take a closer look at this, anyone can see that if Barry had followed this advice, as a spiritual teacher he would have had to have been celibate for 34 years - not likely. Everyone knows that he was the top recruiter for Rama for over 20 years. Go figure. I've seen too many people's lives fucked up for long periods of time as the result of sexual relationships with their teachers to believe that it should ever be allowed. If the teacher knows that he or she will get fired for sleeping with a student, it'll happen less. And I actually think that's a good thing. And, I suppose everyone knows that the TMO and the Rama cult was never able to follow this kind of rule. According to Ned Wynn, in his book "Growing Up Crazy in Beverly Hills", sexual activity on TTC was pretty common. In one chapter Ned, a course manager, describes an encounter on the Majorrca TTC when he met a gal that was really into rounding. Once he got her into his room he asked her "Do you know the plow pose?" LoL! "He drifts into alcohol at age 15 and afterward begins drug use. He also has no respect for women, just looking for easy sex and seems to have no real remorse for impregnating a girl and then leaving her. He never speaks of what may have become of the daughter she bore." - Amazon reviewer We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood by Ned Wynn William Morrow, 1990 http://tinyurl.com/offvq6t http://tinyurl.com/offvq6t
