Hat tip to Hermione for pointing us to this article from the Globe and Mail (Canada):

Spank me, but don’t tell my boss

When Colin Wightman was informed by the RCMP last June that he was the subject of a sexual assault investigation, he was forced to make two very uncomfortable phone calls.

Upon leaving the police station where he had described a “consensual one-time fantasy encounter” involving bondage and a woman he met on an Internet dating site, he called his wife and asked if he was allowed to come home.

The other phone call was to his employers at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S., where he had worked for a year as a tenured professor and the director of the school of computer science.

“It was a very difficult phone call to make,” he said this week. “The only phone call that was more difficult was the one I made to my wife.”

More than a year after disclosing his affair to his family and employer, and almost 12 months after he was informed by the RCMP that they would not press charges, 48-year-old Dr. Wightman is still married, although the father of two is receiving counselling.

Things have not worked out so well with his job.

Last September, he was fired by Acadia in light of his “aberrant behaviour.” …