An admired teacher in the UK has been sentenced to a long prison term for initiating teenage boys into sex.

It seems clear that those teenagers enjoyed their sexual relationship at the time, and actively participated in continuing it. Neither apparently claims to have been coerced.

These relationships cannot have been perfect; no relationship ever is. It is not unusual to get into a relationship and later regret it, but if that implies the relationship was harmful, then we would start imprisoning most people who have them.

I have the impression that someone convinced them, based on an ideological position, that some imperfect aspect means the relationships did them grave damage. I am not buying it. Your first relationship is almost sure to be flawed, and you learn from that.

I am sure I'd have had a far happier life if I had learned these things from a teacher when I was 14 rather than waiting years to learn them from someone else.