Jeremy Stangroom

@PhilosophyExp The issue isn't his age, but that as his teacher she was in a position of trust.

@thus_spake_z I'm well aware what the issue supposedly is.

@PhilosophyExp Not "supposedly". That *is* the issue. I'm a childrens nurse. I know if have sex with 17yr old patient I'll go to prison.

@thus_spake_z Yes, but obviously my point is that the law is a ridiculously blunt instrument in these cases.

@PhilosophyExp It's about professional boundaries and power relations. I know the law and so did she.

@thus_spake_z So you think unequal power relations in sexual encounters should be criminalized? Suppsoing I find power a turn on?

@PhilosophyExp Then explore that with someone who isn't an under-18 you have a professional duty of care to.

@thus_spake_z That begs the question... The onus is those who want to criminalize certain sorts of consensual behavior to justify it.

@PhilosophyExp ... a psychiatric nurse had sex with an adult patient of theirs. It's an abuse of power.

@decoredis Where is the evidence that there was any absue of power? Who says the power belonged to the teacher?

@PhilosophyExp ...But legally, within the framework of bourgeois law, it is that for which she is punished, not for what his age was,...

@PhilosophyExp " will remain on the sex offenders register for the supervision period." - six months. US & male- for life.

@SubManUSN Yeah, and there have been a few egregious cases in the USA as well.