I've been a professor for close to ten years now, and I can't tell you how strongly I disagreed with this essay. Maybe it's a generational thing: a perception of what's acceptable in life even outside academia. For instance, she says,<p>> "Somehow I don’t see the publishing industry instituting codes banning unhappily married editors from going goopy over authors,"<p>but from my perspective, the story she relayed showed exactly why publishers should (and, I think, often do) fire or strongly sanction any editor who abuses his or her position in that way. Part of the author's point seems to be, "We need to prepare students for the dangers of the world out there," which I think is entirely sensible. But her proposed solution appears to be, "Make sure that college provides practice fending off unwanted advances by people with power over you," while I'd much prefer, "Make sure that college teaches them those advances aren't acceptable."<p>Don't get me wrong: I think sex can be <i>awesome</i>, and I think a whole lot of people are way too eager to make rules about what other consenting adults ought to be able to do. But the thought of a professor putting a student in a position where they fear the consequences of saying no (when they might be counting on that professor for a good grade or a recommendation letter) just horrifies me. Professors: if you want to get it on at work, you've got plenty of colleagues to choose from. And if there's some student you're convinced is your soulmate, just cross your damned legs for a couple years.