Bill Maher Says Consensual Sexual Relationships in Workplace Should Not be Banned

Bill Maher made a reasonably compelling case that plenty of guidelines towards consensual intercourse within the office usually are not solely ridiculous … they’re dangerous.

The “Real Time” host challenged firms that require fast notification if 2 staff are banging and prohibit sexual relationships between supervisors and their subordinates.

He concedes, if there is a office relationship between a superior and a subordinate, it ought to be watched … however not banned.

As Bill says, work is the place most individuals spend most of their waking hours, and that is additionally the place they get to know individuals … and generally they catch emotions and even fall in love.

He ticks off a listing of people that have been fired for his or her consensual relationships. He factors to former CNN honcho Jeff Zucker, who was fired for having a consensual relationship with a 49-year-old CNN government — as if the corporate wanted to inform the 49-year-old exec it wasn’t proper due to an influence imbalance, though she did not assume it was an issue.

How ’bout this level he raises … if these guidelines have been in place again within the day, Barack and Michelle Obama would not be married. He was a summer season affiliate at a regulation agency and she or he was his supervisor.  Bill says she was actually banging the intern, and good for them!

He level out the hypocrisy … Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde attached in the course of the capturing of “Don’t Worry Darling,” and once you shoot a film a director will not be solely boss, she’s God.