Message #13859

[Serena Duvet]

I've heard supporters of a criticized teacher say that having sex with devotees or students that is consensual isn't wrong.  I've heard supporters of a sexually deviant teacher say that "the lower can't understand the higher."  But a teacher in authority having sexual relations with a devotee or student who is in his or her trust is wrong.  Dividing a wife or husband from their spouse or a child from its family for sexual purposes is wrong.  Pedophilism, the rape of children, is wrong, whether you're name's Muktananda or Jerry Sandusky, the convicted child rapist and former college football coach.  And a teacher shouldn't be telling students that having sex with him or her is a divine sacrament or a way to a higher state.