College President arrested - Grindr

[+ sniper]

I was speaking in more general terms not about actually illegal activity, which should always be a no-no. But if a college president is found having an affair with a 17 year old even if that's above the age of consent, odds are his career is over. If a 21 year old has an affair with someone at the restaurant where he works and gets it on in the kitchen after hours, he might lose that job, but it's not going to have much impact one way or the other on his furture.

[spider]

I don’t understand either? Is this an ageist comment by @spider

 

Not at all. A college president is an example if someone in a position where such activity will be job and career ending. Age has nothing to do with it.

[+ sniper]

Not at all. A college president is an example if someone in a position where such activity will be job and career ending. Age has nothing to do with it.

But it's also not a position you typically get to at an early age in the first place. Most professionals by their 50s have both something to lose and limited time to make it up if they do. That's why you shouldn't, for example, be 100% invested in options in your 50s but you can give it a go in your 20s...

[+ quoththeraven]

US law is extraterritorial whenever they feel like it. See the US tax code.

I mentioned the tax code. But the criminal parts of the tax code still require a US nexus.

[+ quoththeraven]

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexual-exploitation-children

So sex tourism to have sex with minors is illegal. What if a US citizen travels to a country (say one they or their parents emigrated from) to marry someone who is underage and then returns with them to the US? I don't know the ins and outs of recognizing marriages that couldn't be contracted here, but let's say for the sake of argument this marriage could be contracted in the US spouse's state of residence if the underage spouse had parental consent. Can that be spun as sex tourism anyway? (My guess is no, because sex between people who are validly married is exempt from age of consent laws.)

 

Note this is that way because sex tourism is considered a subset of trafficking. (The child porn aspect is separate - that is essentially an extraterritorial crime anyway considering the content people are prosecuted for viewing and downloading could be generated anywhere.)

[DallasClient]

I talk on Grindr a lot, especially when bored and I have met a lot of great guys I've hired on there. I have run into guys who I've visited with and have later said their true age which is too young to meet. I don't usually drop them but I'll say we can't meet and offer myself as available to answer any questions they might have about anything. I usually make sure they know about safe sex, where to go to get free tests and condoms, general sex and dating questions. Even school and career topics. You can still visit as long as it isn't inappropriate. At least I think so. I'll just add that it would only be online in the app, not in a McDonalds or anything else in person - yikes!

[MidAndy]

I have a question for you guys.

Would if college president meets an 18 yo boy at MacDonald's for an encounter that can be sexual?

Should he be removed then? Or not?

[+ azdr0710]

I have a question for you guys.

Would if college president meets an 18 yo boy at MacDonald's for an encounter that can be sexual?

Should he be removed then? Or not?

 

other than the "optics" of that, there's almost certainly a morals clause in his contract that would forbid that type meeting.....

 

even if all was "legal" and he sued for being inappropriately fired, the messy trial and all is something nobody would likely want to face.....