I wholeheartedly agree, but then it is an employment matter rather than something wider society needs to take a position on. I’m in favour of those policies because they inform the participants who might embark on a sexual encounter that such an encounter may cost them their jobs but that is one part of the information that they can use to make their adult decision.

My best friend is dating her piano teacher, a man 22 years older than she is. They began when she was 20 and he was 42. Everyone was outraged. She is now 42 and he is 64 and they are one of the happiest couples I know. In many ways (and by her own admission) she had to push him into it. Shes now a doctor of philosophy, he’s an introverted musician. This wasn’t considered by those doing the knee-jerk reaction to the ‘power’ question. In fact, her agency and choice was put aside as people solely focussed on his actions and wrote her out of her own narrative.

The position taken by members of the public is often under-informed, lacking context and based on incomplete information. Snap decisions are made that (usually) disempower young women and villainise older men. I think in a commitment to feminism and equality, we have to be careful we don’t unduly interfere in things that are not our business.

And yes, Clinton should’ve been impeached and both he and Lewinsky fired for gross misconduct (If those were the rules at the time). The fact they both entered into an adult relationship fully cognisant of the power imbalance and fully understanding the implications of what this meant is neither here nor there. I have huge sympathy for Ms Lewinsky, I think she was treated abominably- but I think that’s because the public has an outsized opinion of its own moral importance and should be encouraged to shut up most of the time.