Advice needed from other instructors

[Nidan Melbourne]

The kind of situation described here is not unique to karate because it happens anywhere and everywhere men and women find themselves interacting in a social group where the man has a role of authority or influence.

No good can come of this even if the woman accepts the advances because the social relationship is changed to the point of no return to what was existing before. The man in question and the woman can no longer continue their roles without emotions interfering. The best advice and solution where there is this type of break with ethics is to part ways and start over elsewhere. Go find another instructor or dojo.

One should never try to seek intimate emotional relationships with a person directly above or below oneself in a social group. Especially if the social relationship is one of authority or influence!

Well it happens as well when roles are reversed where the female is in a position of authority and the male isn't

I have seen it happen more often than when a male is in a position of power. Yes it occurs but not as often.