Like you said you are both adults so I can't see any morale dilemma. As she is not your student you can't be accused of some how using your position as her teacher in any sinister way (whatever that might be).

No, Magister you are flat out wrong, and if you don't know it, you are kidding yourself. By your logic, all teachers at universities can sleep with any student they want as long as the student isn't their student (and won't be in the future). Really?! Both adults? Yes, we know technically that a 21 year old student, who someone has been scoping out since she was 20 qualifies as an "adult," but having taught scores of girls that age in China I know that they are much more like High School girls in the West, much more innocent and sheltered. When you say "you are both adults" you are trying to make it sound equal, when you know a 44 year old Western teacher and a 21 year old native Chinese girl are NOT on an equal playing field.

No, my friend, one is not hired to prey on the students, and a university is not a place for teachers take advantage of students like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm fairly positive you would all object vehemently to someone dating their High School students, but tack on one more year and it's an open playing field? Nope!

There's a much easier way to look at this. You are there to teach students, and that's it. If one doesn't have the moral backbone and self-control to leave students alone, he doesn't belong in a university. He is a liability and a threat to students emotional well-being as well as their futures.

Such teachers should be removed from their posts because they have shown themselves to be, without a doubt, too immature and weak to take up a role as an instructor in a university.

That's the reality. People can make lame ass excuses to take advantage of students, but that's pathetic. It's also an admission that one can't meet a real woman outside of the university, or, to use my analogy, can't catch a fish unless it's shooting them in a barrel.