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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3605)	9/18/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Lewinsky was 22 at the time the affair began. 18 is the oldest age of consent in any jurisdiction that I am aware of. (It actually varies from 15 to 18 from state to state, I believe.) 18 is the voting age, and age of majority for most purposes. (Excepting only drinking, I believe.) Involvement with any sort of teenager would have been a lot more distasteful to most people, I think. But if a woman who has graduated from college is not thought to be a full adult, are we not patronizing and infantalizing women? My strong impression is that most women of Monica's age feel strongly as I have outlined. Doug