If we're talking about someone with no specific power, not in a trusted position, then I'd say it is morally a gray area, at first glance. You'll need the totality of circumstances. FI, little Susie with no, or a weak, or an absent, father, slutting it up at 13, with a fake ID, should be given accountability, not victimhood. Depending on how developed she was, and how good she could act, those fooled might deserve some punishment, but not to have their lives ruined.
Teacher and student, though, is a clear one. Some states have laws that make it illegal for over 18, too. I don't doubt for a second that there are men that lack sufficient willpower, and get seduced, too. But, they should have done something to avoid that situation, before it went too far (unfortunately, TBF, the social situation, there, wrt to men, is pretty shit, these days).
It's a betrayal of trust. Teachers are given leeway to deal with annoying and sometimes complicated realities of dealing with kids that are not perfectly normal. They are expected to maintain certain boundaries. In many, if not most, cases, there is a lot of emotional manipulation going on, and that is what is likely to give them issues. Their brain-crippling sex drive being used against them, for the authority figure to get whatever they want from them. A bored horny hot teacher with few scruples getting with a student on amicable terms may be a fantasy, and like a fantasy, isn't real.
If we're talking about someone with no specific power, not in a trusted position, then I'd say it is morally a gray area, at first glance. You'll need the totality of circumstances. FI, little Susie with no, or a weak, or an absent, father, slutting it up at 13, with a fake ID, should be given accountability, not victimhood. Depending on how developed she was, and how good she could act, those fooled might deserve some punishment, but not to have their lives ruined.
Teacher and student, though, is a clear one. Some states have laws that make it illegal for over 18, too. I don't doubt for a second that there are men that lack sufficient willpower, and get seduced, too. But, they should have done something to avoid that situation, before it went too far (unfortunately, TBF, the social situation, there, wrt to men, is pretty shit, these days). It's a betrayal of trust. Teachers are given leeway to deal with annoying and sometimes complicated realities of dealing with kids that are not perfectly normal. They are expected to maintain certain boundaries.