To be fair, Lewinsky has come around to saying the power imbalance was too high for her to have meaningfully consented, and I’ve been thinking that since I was a kid in the 90s. But yeah, she was in her early 20s, still young but not a child
I mean, I understand the imbalance of power dynamic, but you’ve also hit on a strong point that she was in her early 20s. We shouldn’t infantilise adults by assuming that they don’t have the power to enforce consent when they’re fully cognisant of the gravity, nature and consequences of sexual activities that they engage in. If that’s the case, then we need to raise the age of consent to at least 25.
To be fair, Lewinsky has come around to saying the power imbalance was too high for her to have meaningfully consented, and I’ve been thinking that since I was a kid in the 90s. But yeah, she was in her early 20s, still young but not a child
I mean, I understand the imbalance of power dynamic, but you’ve also hit on a strong point that she was in her early 20s. We shouldn’t infantilise adults by assuming that they don’t have the power to enforce consent when they’re fully cognisant of the gravity, nature and consequences of sexual activities that they engage in. If that’s the case, then we need to raise the age of consent to at least 25.