Study Kiddushin folio 82A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
All such actions are permitted for the sake of Heaven. In other words, if one is acting out of familial affection, without any element of licentiousness, they are permitted.
Mishnah: A bachelor may not act as a teacher of children, nor may a woman act as a teacher of children. R' Elazar says: Even one who does not have a wife may not act as a teacher of children. R' Yehuda says: A bachelor may not herd cattle, nor may two bachelors sleep with one covering, lest they t
Talmud: What is the reason that a bachelor may not teach children? If we say it is due to the children themselves, that it is suspected that he may engage in homosexual sex with them, but isn’t it taught in a baraita (Tosefta 5:10): They said to R' Yehuda: Jews are not suspected of engaging in homo
The Mishnah teaches that R' Elazar says: Even one who does not have a wife may not act as a teacher of children. A dilemma was raised before the students in the study hall: Does R' Elazar mean one who does not have a wife at all, or perhaps he is referring even to one who has a wife, in a circumstan
The Mishnah teaches that R' Yehuda says: A bachelor may not herd cattle, nor may two bachelors sleep with one covering. It is taught in the Tosefta (5:10): They said to R' Yehuda: Jews are not suspected of engaging in homosexual sex nor of having sex with an animal.