Buying their kids booze and hotel rooms assumes sex. BUT - and this is a huge but - the traditional assumption is that there will be sex between two students. That willingness to look the other way is still problematic, but it doesn't even approach the same magnitude as what's here.

Here we're talking about teachers and students. This is among the greatest power differentials that exist in traditional society. There have been many correctly fired teachers for abusing just that relationship of power over a student. But here to do so in the open public, assuming "Ha, ha, what fun!"??? Fuck. This is absolutely explicit sexual abuse according to just about any source you choose to look up what that term means. Well, until the past couple of years anyway...