Is it okay for a teacher to moonlight as a prostitute?

Updated: 11:42AM Friday October 10, 2008

An Auckland primary school teacher is moonlighting as a prostitute, throwing her school bosses into a quandary over her future.

The woman, a mother of two children in her 30s, is new to teaching and moonlights as a prostitute to boost her income.

Debate on this issue has now closed. Here is a selection of Your Views:

Foreign Spy (Albany)
Friday October 10, 2008 Ha, ha. Is this teacher a specialist? A sex-education tutor, perhaps? Seriously, her only crime is being identified for her extra-curricular activities. Good Lord, some of our children's teachers are former National Party candidates. Now there's a cause for real concern!

Andy (Glendowie)
Friday October 10, 2008 What a woman does with her body is up to her. It is not up to the government to determine whether or not she can prostitute herself.

So what if she prostitutes herself at night and then teaches in a primary school during the day? It is a common occurrence for parents to have multiple jobs. So long as it doesn't impact on her teaching I cant see a problem with it at all.

sas (Hamilton)
Friday October 10, 2008 It's her life and what she does in her spare time outside teaching is of no concern to anyone. That's the fault of our law system for making prostitution legal. If it was against the law to prostitute then women that have a career such as teaching would not have to resort to this to make ends meet. It just makes you think that if prostitution earns you alot more money than having a career what's the use in education such as attending university and then get a student loan in order to pay for your fees when all you gotta do is sell your body.

With prostitution being legal just makes it easier for a girl to leave school at 16 and go into prostitution to earn a living.

Pita Meanata (Avondale, Auckland)
Tuesday October 7, 2008 I think if her 'moon light' job doesn't affect her performance as a teacher then this shouldn't affect her future as a teacher.

sand (Auckland)
Tuesday October 7, 2008 No, not really. At a deep level it seems wrong to me to hire, buy or sell human beings for (faux) intimacy.

I think the law should have made it illegal for men to hire women in such a manner, rather than punishing the women, as previously, or making it legal, as now. That would reduce prostitution I bet. Prostitution and all the lies that go with it hurt a lot of people.

Nothing wrong with sex in respectful relationships, but prostitution and hiring people in an intimate way seems the wrong way to go about it. Now people, especially women, as more or less sexual commodities is becoming more or less mainstream. A sad and unthinking state of affairs.

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