" red-hot for Teacher " may have been a major hit for Van Halen back in 1984 , but the very idea of a personal relationship between teacher and scholarly person — regardless of years — was nothing to blab about for Ohio lawmakers back in the 19th C . On April 22 , 1886 , the Buckeye Statepasseda law that made it illegal for any man over the age of 21 to put the moves on a woman he was instruct . Those who dare try would face the possibleness of spending up to a decade in the clink .
To be clear , while the statute quite rightly made it illegal for an grownup male instructor to engross in an inappropriate relationship with one of his young students , the wide-cut parallel of latitude of the natural law croak far beyond that , state :
Translate that to today ’s standards and what it mean is that , even if you ’re an single thirty - something looking for Mr. Right , you ’d be wise to keep your hired hand off your personal flight simulator , lest he be arrested for reciprocating your wild-eyed interests . ( And yes , the same operate for your roller skating instructor . )
But Ohio was hardly the first state to go across such a law . In Virginia , dangling the candidate of marriage ceremony as a room to get some nookie was a no - no with " any unmarried female of old chaste character " and again punishable by up to 10 yr in prison . ( The lawmaker were generous enough to note that the " sexual abstention of the female shall be presume , in the absence seizure of grounds to the contrary . “)New Yorkinstituted a similar law of nature in 1848 , but consider the criminal offense a misdemeanor ( whereas Virginia classify it as a felony ) .
Georgia , too , had aseduction law , which reads very Jackie Collins - esque with phrase like " induce her to afford to his libidinous embraces " and " allow him to have carnal knowledge of her . " Any man charge with the offense had one of two pick : take his chance in court and risk spend two to 20 year in prison house — or espouse the gallon ! The scripted law noted that , " The criminal prosecution may be stopped at any sentence by the matrimony of the parties , or abona fideand remain pass to marry on the part of the seducer . " Which was certainly one way to snag a hubby !
