At Chaseley Trust, a British nursing facility housed in a resplendent mansion, residents can avail of everything from a gym to a movie theater. Occasionally, the nursing home also invites strippers and prostitutes to provide their services to residents. The local East Sussex County Council has launched an investigation into the nursing home's unorthodox practice, which has sparked a debate over the rights of the disabled as well as the role of sex in assisted living facilities. While detractors feel this has the potential to place residents at risk of abuse and exploitation, facility workers claim that not having the strippers and prostitutes actually increases the chances of their being sexually harrassed by the residents, some of whom are still in their teens and have neurological problems. Chaseley asserts that the move is their way of trying to meet their residents' needs -- whether sexual or otherwise. It also allows Chaseley's staff to feel some piece of mind. B...

Since graduating from college, I've worked for 3 companies, and I have seen at least one workplace relationship bloom at each one. It seems most companies don't explicitly forbid workplace relationships, but people involved in them aim to keep the relationships under wraps nonetheless. The danger in having a romantic relationship with a coworker is obvious: what happens if the relationship goes sour? Would it create a more hostile work environment for those in the relationship as well as everyone around them? The bottom line is that you don't want to do anything to jeopardize your job. If both people are certain they can leave their relationship at home and not let their relationship woes (if any) seem into their work lives, then I don't see a problem with carrying on. This, of course, is assuming both people work in the same department. If you work for Sales and he works for Human Resources, you likely won't interact with one another, posing even fewer pote...