Should teacher-student relationships be allowed on campus?

Should Student-Teacher Affairs be permitted on campus?

This has turned into such a global debate.  Some studies from people like Pat Sikes even claim that an erotic charge in a teacher leads to better learning.  I am not sure how much the studies are true, but as a firm defender of individual rights, I opine that student-teacher affairs should be permitted on campus.

It’s partly true that a teacher is in a position to take undue advantage of students on campus due to their position.  Even law has identified teacher-student relationship as one where undue advantage could exist and any acts committed on recommendation of the teacher may not be fully consensual by the student.  

However, when the issue is looked at as a whole with full spotlight rather than in bits and pieces, the justice seems to be in allowing these relationships to happen.  

Individual rights, the mark of the 21st century, not only consist of freedom of speech, religion, travel and vote.  They carry onto mean that a person is free to believe and act as per his/her wishes, as long as he/she is not jeopardizing that which does not belong to him.  This also means that a person is free to choose a sexual or romantic partner.  

Imposing rules as to who can have an affair with whom, is like creating a whole new caste system within the society.  At a time when the older civilizations are finally being groomed by western concepts to let go of racial or caste based boundaries, here we are creating them all over again.  The American universities that fire professors for having affairs with their students, are breaching the basic tenets on which the constitution of the country is based upon.  They are also indirectly saying that they neither have faith in the character of their professors, nor in the law of the land.  Hence, this raises another question.. if the American education system has lost trust in the character of their teachers, what are we expecting them to teach the students?  And if we in the east blindly follow what a few American universities have decreed for their educators, are we also saying that we do not trust the character of the teachers within our system?  If so, why are we allowing them to teach and guide our nation?