> The ONLY acceptable reason for a manager to be sleeping with someone who reports directly to him, or any other similar situation (e.g. a professor with a student in his class) is if a romantic relationship of long standing predates the power relationship.

I'm getting pretty tired of the grandstanding going on around this issue. There are lots of "acceptable" reasons why this situation may be happening -- it all depends on who is defining "acceptable".

If it's NVIDIA corporate counsel, the definition is going to be different than some moralizing blowhard on social media. For one thing, the lawyer probably doesn't give a shit about his relationship with his wife, and cares exclusively about legal liability to the company.

The one thing that none of us can do is apply our personal moral standards to strangers.