I've got an eighteen year old daughter in college and one son out of college, and I agree with Christine. I wouldn't be happy about what you describe, but in the history of man, twenty one years old is pretty far up there. The evolution of when young women are physically capable of having children, and when adolescent boys start to have perpetual erections should tell you what message our evolutionary clock is sending to us. My grandmother was only sixteen when she married my grandfather, and had three children before she was twenty one. At the turn of the century, this was more common than not. After all, life expectancy was twenty plus years less than it is now.
Putting off sex until years after one can father or have a child (often a very good idea, granted) is a relatively recent phenomena, encouraged by socio-political variables, like universal public education, birth control, women in the workplace, etc.
If, on the other hand, an adult in the workplace (including Clinton) implicitly or explicitly wanted a quid pro quo (job for sex, as has been charged), I would argue that is sexual harrassment and let the ax fall where it may. To me (and to the legal system) there is a big difference between consensual sex and sexual harassment.
Incidentally, all you have to go is go to a country club to see 50 year old men with women in their 20s. Money and power always has and always will be an aphrodisiac, which is one reason why I hope my daughter gets an education which enables her to be economically independent. |
