Ultimately, a society based on free choice should allow consenting adults to have harmless relationships without repercussions. Humans are sexual beings and become attracted to other adults they are around a lot (depending on sexuality), which is why this crops up again and again in workplaces. Rejecting this is based on suspicion of human sexuality, which is a kind of self-hatred, and suspicion of power, as if power dynamics were not always already operative. Nepotism guidelines, by the way, are instituted in many organizations to regularize both family and partner relationships within the institutions without forbidding them. The training given my group back in the 1990s on these issues set forth what I take to be excellent guidelines, namely, that any such relationship involving the authority of one over the other should simply be reported to superiors so that the authority be passed on to another person outside the relationship. Sexual relationships with subordinates or co-workers were permitted, therefore. Harassment, by contrast, was banned for obvious reasons.