Consensual? Sort of. She agreed but keep in mind that there was as a great disparity in age and position that made it an unequal partnership. It could get a person fired in a regular workplace. Clinton is not the alternate role model we should seek.

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No one is saying Bill Clinton is a rol model. But, Lewinsky was an adult. She made a choice. There are planty of marriages between folks who have a "great disparity in age and position" but we have an age of consent and she was well above that age.

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  1. Lewinsky was 21 at the time. Hardly having the same experience or power as Clinton. He claimed to have the skills necessary to lead a country but not the judgement to leave an intern alone. What if it had been a senile old woman? Would you say she was old enough to consent?

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