History Main / TeacherStudentRomance

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the protagonist's homeroom teacher, Ms. Kawakami, as a potential romance option. Though in this case, she's perfectly aware of the implications and is very reluctant to pursue the romance; you have to confirm her romantic route three times before she accepts. And even after she does, [[TheJailBaitWait she refuses to do anything untoward with Joker until he's of age]], even if he propositions her.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the Temperance [[RelationshipValues confidant]] is Sadayo Kawakami, the Protagonist's homeroom teacher. On the side, she moonlights as a [[PlatonicProstitution call-in maid]], with the protagonist becoming her main client. Though slightly suggestive, most of the activities she does are practical in nature, such as cooking and cleaning (she does this dressed as a [[{{Meido}} maid]], though, so it's not entirely innocent, and she makes a point of saying that due to Joker being underage she isn't going to offer ''all'' of her normal services). At the end of her plotline, however, she and the protagonist can enter into a romantic relationship; though the concept of a teacher-student romance has been teased in ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' before, this is the first time it's been possible to actually follow through on it. However, if you're still in a relationship with her in the epilogue, she decides that she's too uncomfortable being in a relationship with a minor and tells Joker that she wants to wait until he's legally old enough.

It is a pretty good bet that almost any show that features adults and teens interacting in an academic environment will eventually explore a romantic relationship between a teacher and a student. The basis for such a relationship -- if it's ''actually'' a romance, and not just a SextraCredit arrangement -- might be the student's adoration and respect toward the teacher, the teacher's protective and caring instincts toward the student, or both. While the illicit, forbidden, and most often scandalous nature of these relationships can be mined for angst in-universe, they usually don't cause real-life issues because the actors themselves are generally all above the age of consent thanks to DawsonCasting. But even if the student is eighteen or in college, [[TeachersOutOfSchool this sort of extracurricular activity]] would still be considered a ''massive'' breach of professional ethics in most of the world, and in some jurisdictions is illegal regardless of age under certain circumstances (for instance, some high school teachers have been charged for having relationships with students even if those relationships didn't begin until after the student turned eighteen and the teacher was only a few years older). And even where it isn't illegal, such an affair is usually socially unacceptable enough to cost a teacher or professor their job forever if discovered.

This group of tropes is among TheOldestOnesInTheBook. Although generally frowned upon in RealLife today, it's had [[ValuesDissonance varying levels of acceptance throughout history]]. It was most famously acceptable in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece, where it took the form of LoverAndBeloved.

* ''Film/PerfectAddiction'': Sienna began dating Jax while she'd been training him. After they broke up, she began training Kayden as she's very tempted by him as well. They at last admit their feelings for each other and become lovers. Her mentor Julian forbids this, and knows at once after they're become involved. They put their relationship on hiatus when he's discovered this to keep on training in his gym.

* One of the recurring couples in ''WebOriginal/GetsuyoubiNoTawawa'' is a mutual example, with their first installment set [[JailBaitWait just after the girl graduated from high school]].

* ''Film/TheNovice'': Alex and Dani, her TA, flirt before having sex later. Dani won't actually date her when she's teaching Alex however, only doing so after she's not in her class.

* In ''Manga/ChouKuseNiNarisou'', Nagisa is chased by a homosexual male teacher who [[{{Crossdresser}} mistakes her for a boy]].
* In ''Manga/DearS'', Mitsuka-sensei is hot for AnythingThatMoves, meaning that ALL of her students have to deal with her teaching sexually-explicit foreign language lessons (that she wrote herself) while she's wearing nothing but skimpy lingerie. Even the male students find this [[FetishRetardant more annoying than anything else.]]

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': WordOfGod has confirmed that Cinderpelt, while she was Firestar's apprentice, wanted a TeacherStudentRomance. However, Firestar, being... er, [[ChasteHero Firestar]], [[AllLoveIsUnrequited didn't]].

%%* ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod'', where the female student also is deaf and has some serious psychological issues.

* In Mark Behr's ''Embrace'', the 13-year-old protagonist has two simultaneous homosexual love affairs: one with his best friend, a boy the same age, the other with his 30-something choirmaster.
* In Fritz Peters's ''Finistère'', published in 1951, one of the first mainstream novels with homosexual themes, a 15-year-old boy at boarding school has a love affair with a male teacher in his late 20s.

* In Iris Murdoch's ''The Bell'', 26-year-old teacher Michael has a brief, intense, chaste love affair with Nick, a 15-year-old pupil of his. [[spoiler: The fallout from thi spoils Michael's life.]]
* Creator/BarryLyga's novel ''Boy Toy'' subverts this trope as the main plot. The main character seduced an attractive female teacher at a very young age and has to deal with the legal, social, and psychological consequences when everyone in town finds out. It's revealed to be even more twisted at the end when [[spoiler: said teacher tells him she intentionally seduced him, and intended to from the moment she first saw him. For the five years following that, the main character was convinced that ''he'' seduced ''her'', and that all the resulting consequences were entirely his fault.]] Nevermind the fact that the teacher had already made moves on high-school students in the past...

* This trope is all over ''Claudine at School''; it's a wonder the oversexed staff get any work done. Claudine originally falls for teaching assistant Aimee, who gets snatched by the scary new Headmistress Mademoiselle Sergent. Sergent tells Claudine she was attracted to her to begin with. The singing master Monsieur Rabastens fancies Claudine; she plays up to him when there's nothing better to do ... No wonder the school's described as a 'filthy den of tittle-tattle'.

* When ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} aka Dick Grayson became an agent for Sypral in the comic series ''Grayson'', his 'cover' involved working as a gym teacher at a boarding school for female assassins. A lot of the teenage students are outright [[MrFanservice lusting over him]], and his boss altering his cover to make him seem gay does not change their attraction in the slightest: The next time they're shown, they're discussing the respective qualities of his left and right butt cheek.

* Fiona Brake and Dennis Doyle in ''Series/NightAndDay''. Troublingly, there appear to be no consequences whatsoever for Fiona’s career, despite the fact that by the end of the series it's the show's worst-kept secret.

* In the UK ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' Stuart narrates to the camera how he lost his virginity to his (male) PE teacher. When he was ''eleven''.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', [[TheHero Rean]] can engage in [[RelationshipValues bonding events]] with his classmates and his homeroom teacher, [[BadassTeacher Sara Valestine]]. Sara is often [[TheTease jokingly flirtatious]] towards him, but starting in the second game Rean can actively pursue her and should he choose her for his final bonding event, she tells him that if he's still interested after he graduates, [[JailBaitWait she'll be waiting for him]]. She'll even tease the class with alluding to the fact that she might have a boyfriend when they attempt to poke fun at her for [[HollywoodDateless never having one]] at the end of the game.

* Season 2 of ''Series/BronBroen'' features a lesbian relationship between schoolgirl Laura and teacher Beate. [[spoiler:It costs Beate her job, and she ends up poisoned by a toxin intended for Laura.]]

* This trope is the underlying plot of "Don't Stand So Close to Me", by Music/ThePolice. In that song, a schoolgirl develops a crush on a young teacher, who is uncomfortable and embarrassed at how he returns the feelings, and gives her a ride home one rainy afternoon. A scandal erupts when a rumor begins to spread that they slept together, though the song never actually states that they did. There is no evidence that he took advantage of her feelings (it's never explicitly stated in the song's lyrics, but Sting offhandedly [[WordOfGod confirmed]] in a 1981 interview that the teacher raped her). The school board seems to assume the worst anyway. It doesn't help that the girl has been ''planning'' to seduce him and is quite obvious about it.
** Sting also said it was inspired on personal experience:
--->'''Sting:''' I'd done teaching practice at secondary schools and been through the business of having 15-year-old girls fancying me - and me really fancying them! How I kept my hands off them I don't know...

* The Australian movie ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid'' (1993) (''not'' related to any of the American movies called ''Film/TheHeartbreakKid'') revolves around a male student and a female teacher falling for each other while setting up a high school soccer team. Unlike many examples, the two are fairly close in age and both over the (Australian) age of consent (he's 18 and in his final year of high school, she's 22 and fresh out of university), which tends to alleviate the {{Squick}} factor inherent in this trope somewhat, if not necessarily the ethical concerns. [[spoiler: The teacher quits her job before she can be fired, and decides to pursue further education herself, with the pair promising to meet again in two years.]]

* Yukari-sensei in ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'' is constantly throwing herself at her students and generally acting inappropriately... and the students want none of it.

* It's implied that [[SenseiChan Komoe]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has a crush on Touma.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Prof. Nasujima has a rather obvious thing for his student Anri. In his case, however, it's more of an indication that he's a giant creep than a case of forbidden love (especially since it's implied that Anri is hardly his first in this regard). It's shown that his first relationship with a student was mutually consensual but seriously unhealthy, and he was the one to quit it since the girl was an even bigger creep than he, and he was seriously afraid for his safety.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': After Rossweisse is reincarnated as a devil, she becomes a teacher in Kuoh Academy. Shortly after she ends up falling for Issei and becoming part of his harem.

* ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'':

** In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic,'' the MMORPG follow up to the ''Knights'' games, all four Force using classes can engage in romances with their apprentices (though curiously only if male; female Force users do have romance options, just not for apprentices). The levels of awkwardness varies considerably depending on the situation. All such apprentices are adults, just in case you were worried.

* All of the Force using classes in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' can engage in romances with their apprentices (though curiously only if male; female Force users do have romance options, just not for apprentices). The levels of awkwardness vary considerably depending on the situation. All such appentices are adults, just in case you were worried.