# Another day, another woman teacher arrested for having sexual intercourse and maybe oral sex too.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949 "2014-03-17T20:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949/61 "2014-03-19T15:15:00Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > My district prohibits me from accepting any gift worth more than $50 from a student. I believe that’s pretty common. Where I come from, a blowjob is worth less than 50 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949/62 "2014-03-19T15:40:06Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > If aunts/uncles are third degree, how on earth are first cousins second degree? Sorry about that. For the first reply on the issue (the one that didn’t contain cousins) I was able to find a cite for NJ law. The second reply I found a consanguinity chart with all of the family relationships and it listed cousins as 2nd degree. But it is from [Texas](http://www.txstate.edu/effective/upps/upps-04-04-07-att1.html) and there are differences between the definitions in each state. I will try to find a full chart that is used in the NJ law. It is not spelled out in the statute. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949/63 "2014-03-20T01:28:10Z")
Yeah, that Texas definition is kind of particular, **Loach**. The classic rule for degrees of consanguinity is by total steps to and from the nearest common ancestor – in the case of first cousins it’s two generations on each side to reach the common grandparent, so it’s four degrees total. First: Parent-Child; Second: Sibling-sibling; Third: Aunt/Uncle-Niece/Nephew; Fourth: First cousins, or Grand[uncle/aunt-nephew/niece]; etc. Texas seems to rule that direct single-generation descent is first degree, that everyone else connected at the grandparent level, regardless of intermediary steps(\*), is second, and everyone else connected at the Great-grandparent level, regardless of intermedary steps, is third. (\*thus puzzlingly placing sibling/sibling in the same category as cousin/cousin) ANYWAY back to the subject at hand in some sort of way – it was a (historically) recent phenomenon for sexual assault statutes to include relationships of responsible authority (guardians, teachers, correctional/parole officers, etc.) as one of the criteria for determining that consent has been vitiated (so it’s not just a breach of ethics but an actual crime), as well as for the sexual assault statutes to be gender-indifferent. And while the “hot for teacher” fantasy trope may be quite common to the point of triteness but a ton of fun to play with, let’s face it, it’s really more of a _hot teacher_ fantasy. Folks are thinking of Deb LaFave/Pam Turner types or of a _Private Lessons_ scenario. Not of the female version of a Dirty Old Man. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949/64 "2014-03-20T18:32:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Where I come from, a blowjob is worth less than 50 bucks. If you have to _pay_ less than $50, then you likely live in an economically depressed area. If it’s _worth_ less than $50, you’re seeing the wrong ho. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949/65 "2014-03-20T18:45:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Thirty-one is not “aged”. Aged would be my 10th grade Latin teacher: gray hair in a bun, wattles under her chin, shapeless saggy body in her perennial polka dot dress, sensible flat shoes, and bifocals. So…how was she? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-woman-teacher-arrested-for-having-sexual-intercourse-and-maybe-oral-sex-too/683949.md?page=3)