"Teachers' unions advise members to avoid ever being alone with a pupil. Only close relatives (and not always they) dare show a child physical affection. Scouts and other youth organisations struggle to recruit volunteers. And I doubt that, if I were now 17, a young, single teacher would invite me to dine alone at her home. Since I had never previously dined out, I suppose that would be my loss. It is right that we now abhor child abuse and no longer tolerate abuse of authority for even low-level sexual gratification. But do we need to go so far? Can't we forbid the sex but still allow intimate relations between teachers and pupils, adults and children? Even as I write that sentence, I realise that "intimate relations" is itself ambiguous and that, no, we probably can't have our cake and eat it."
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Peter Wilby
1998 – 2005
Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist. He is a former editor of The Independent on Sunday (April 1995–October 1996) and the New Statesman (1998–2005). Wilby joined The Observer as a reporter in 1968. He was appointed as the newspaper's education correspondent around 1972, and subsequently worked in this field for the New Statesman (1975–77) and The Sunday Times (1977–1986). In August 2023, Wilby was convicted of making indecent images of children, some in the most serio
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