[RappingBoomer]

this nation has changed dramatically in the last few decades...the elites have clamped down on the little people in so many ways...so many laws and regulations now...i was reading a comic book from the 1950s the other day, and the premise was that a female college student was having an affair with her professor...and there were other plot elements...but the amazing thing was that the other characters did not think the relationship was unusual at all...nowadays, in a movie or in the media, such a relationship would be portrayed as scandalous...

the hit movie american graffiti from the 1970s showed a high school teacher having an affair with one of his students...but it was just a casual aside in the movie plot...no one made a big deal about it...

this nation is entering some sort of neopuritanical hell hole...and it aint gonna be pretty...

[cafard]

And I remember a mystery novel by Isaac Asimov, set in the 1950s or maybe early 1960s, in which an affair with a student is mentioned as the sort of thing that could get a professor fired. And I remember a fellow I once met in the mountain west ca. 1976, who had dumped his wife for a 19-year-old student. He was no longer a professor, and I gathered that this was why.

[rasz]

> female college student was having an affair with her professor...and there were other plot elements...but the amazing thing was that the other characters did not think the relationship was unusual at all

Thats because females in 1950 USA had very little rights. It was barely 30 years into letting them vote, but only as long as they stay in the kitchen homemaking 'where they belong'.

>would be portrayed as scandalous

exploitative is the word, balance of power is pretty clear here.

>this nation is entering some sort of neopuritanical hell hole

because you cant willy nilly fuck people you have authority over? indeed end of the world.

[jollybean]

???

An adult female and an adult male having a consensual relations is related to 'rights' in what way exactly?

Because I don't think that has anything to do with the situation.

Exploitative by whom? Students don't have to f** profs, it's never been that way.

Your posture is actually sexist, implying that somehow adult females cannot make their own choices.

[ZeroGravitas]

The 'elites' are stopping teachers having sex with school children like they used to do in the good old days of the 1950s?

Well, I for one welcome our new anti-child-abuse overlords.

[inglor_cz]

"school children"

Incessant infantilization of college-aged adult people is part of the problem. A 21 y.o. is not a child by any standard I can think of.

They can take enormous debts in their name, enlist to the army and sacrifice their life, become professional firefighters or miners, use various legal drugs, do dangerous jobs such as sailors etc.

Please do not frame adult people as "children" only because they attend a college. It is patronizing and denies them self-control and agency. It also tends to produce bad, heavy-handed, intrusive and oppressive policies aimed to control them "for their own good".

[heavyset_go]

As someone with family who had tenure at universities in the 70's, the one rule was not to sleep with the students. It certainly was scandalous when that rule was broken.

[anigbrowl]

The quality of any given argument made on social is inversely proportional to the number of ellipses used to present it.

[paulcole]

> this nation has changed dramatically in the last few decades...the elites have clamped down on the little people in so many ways

Wait until you learn about slavery.

> but the amazing thing was that the other characters did not think the relationship was unusual at all...nowadays, in a movie or in the media, such a relationship would be portrayed as scandalous...

Wow, it’s almost like standards for what’s acceptable evolve.