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As to his denial in the Jones deposition that he and
Ms. Lewinsky had had a "sexual relationship," the President maintained that there can be no sexual
relationship without sexual intercourse, regardless of what other sexual activities may transpire. He
stated that "most ordinary Americans" would embrace this distinction.(27)
The President also maintained that none of his sexual contacts with Ms. Lewinsky constituted "sexual
relations" within a specific definition used in the Jones deposition.(28) Under that definition:
[A] person engages in "sexual relations" when the person knowingly engages in or causes -- (1)
contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to
arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person . . . . "Contact" means intentional touching, either
directly or through clothing.(29)
According to what the President testified was his understanding, this definition "covers contact by the
person being deposed with the enumerated areas, if the contact is done with an intent to arouse or
gratify," but it does not cover oral sex performed on the person being deposed.(30) He testified:
[I]f the deponent is the person who has oral sex performed on him, then the contact is with -- not with
anything on that list, but with the lips of another person. It seems to be self-evident that that's what it is.
. . . Let me remind you, sir, I read this carefully.(31)
In the President's view, "any person, reasonable person" would recognize that oral sex performed on
the deponent falls outside the definition.(32) |
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