[NYer]

I think the big problem in the schools today can be traced to the societal acceptance of fornication among unmarried teens/young adults. If sex between unmarried persons, of whatever gender combination, is acceptable, then what is the objection to teacher-student sex, other than personal taste? If it’s okay for a 16-year-old girl to have sex with a 17-year-old boy, what *rational* objection can there be to her engaging in sex with a 30-year-old man?

Yes ... that follows a similar logic to "if it's okay to destroy the child growing in utero then why not after birth?". I'm waiting for some lawyer to use that argument to defend some youth who strangled or beat up a screaming newborn.

[Tax-chick]

"if it's okay to destroy the child growing in utero then why not after birth?".

Very good comparison. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, no matter what the age of the persons involved.

Sex is right between married people who are prepared to be parents. In any other situation, wrong. Trying to split hairs among the versions of "wrong" isn't working.