Fistful, I was reacting to this statement:
I'm assuming that the teacher (if it was a teacher) who was the first to find the teacher/porn star on the internet wasn't searching for a faculty group photo. If I'm correct, then there's a relationship of sorts between the viewed and the viewer, both of whom are teachers at the school.
If it was a student, which is the greater concern: that he found her in a place where she would have a reasonable expectation her students and her fellow teachers wouldn't view, or that he was viewing porn?
Well, you can't have a reasonable expectation that people won't see the porn you're making. It's made to be seen by as many customers as one can find. These apparently were not made by her and her boyfriend for their private viewing.
According to the two articles that have been linked, students brought it to the attention of teachers. For the sake of argument, let's assume that the student(s) found her while browsing porn for the obvious reasons. Do you think the school can't have a policy against hiring teachers who have made porn, unless they also monitor and punish any use of pornography among students? One policy seems much more reasonable (and a lot less intrusive) than the other. After all, making porn is pretty much publicizing your sex life. Looking at it is not, so going after porn consumers is more of a privacy issue. Also, the teacher is an employee of the school, and the student is not. There's also an aspect of this that has to do with the teachers being examples or role models for students. The same is not expected of students.
Also, keep in mind that the students may have found out about this in some way other than the obvious. A student's older brother may have told them, or someone who knows the teacher from outside of the classroom.
My neighbors are all very strict Baptists. If I were in a porn video (there's a scary thought) and one of them saw me, who would be the guiltier: me, for having been in the video, or the neighbor, for having watched it?
Now you're asking a much simpler, moral question about pornography, without all the complications of a public school being involved. But it is a good question. My first thought (and I think the usual Christian answer) is that both sides are equally guilty. I suppose an argument could be made for one side being more guilty than the other, but neither would escape blame entirely.
