ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses female students' ability to give fully voluntary consent to intimate relationships with male professors, and these inequalities also create the danger. The distinction between students for whom the readers have a professional responsibility, will prove to be central to the morality of intimate faculty-student relationships. Retaliation, which is only possible when the professor has professional responsibility for the student, may involve grades or other forms of evaluation. Students' autonomy is also violated, and they are also used, if professors, without making any threats, deceive them into entering an intimate relationship. The most morally interesting faculty-student intimate relationships are those involving neither threats, deception, nor offers. Although the attempt to condemn apparently consensual relationships by defining them as sexual harassment is unwise, doubts about the voluntariness of the consent given by students who enter into them deserve serious consideration.
