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by andai 1072 days ago
>She thinks that like therapy, hat the teaching process can be charged with eroticism, and the professors should channel that impulse towards learning.

Man, I've been taking the wrong courses!

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I read this differently

As in the therapy example: attraction might develop between the student & teacher. Instead of participating, the teacher should recognize/be aware that this exist but channel it back toward learning

Seems weird to me. Of course it started from Freud. I'm not outright discounting it (not like I have any evidence to) but it rubs me the wrong way that attraction would even be considered as part of the learning process. Not that the kind of power dynamic described between professors and students is great either.
It's been discounted by almost everyone else so it's probably safe to discount it.
Yeah, that should be clearly marked in the syllabus, so people who don't want an "erotic" class can take something else.

It's a massive violation.

I need to take that too! Men have rights too!