Sorry, I find this subjectivity troubling. Consent can be given by anyone over the age of consent... provided they aren't coerced. Lewinsky wasn't coerced and as you've said, she made the initial advances. She's either an adult or she's being infantalised - you've used the words 'immature intern' and 'puppy crush' - let's remember this woman had been an adult for 4 years and was working in the White House.

Her consent is not up for debate... what she has is regret, and given what she went through after the affair I'm not in the least bit surprised. The world was awful to Monica Lewinsky, the press and the public should've been ashamed of themselves. She caught the flack for a dance it took two to do.

But that's not the same as being naive and out of her depth. Regret isn't the same as 'lacking consent' and whilst the #MeToo movement has done a great deal of empowering and facilitating conversation, the gross oversimplification of relationships and the 'power imbalance' narrative has to stop. You're either a consenting adult or you aren't. Would it have mattered if she was 32? Would it have mattered if she was 19 and the Vice President? We can't play subjective fuckaboutery with our own moral code - we either have laws or we don't. We don't get to retrospectively turn regret into 'grey area'.

She was, and still is, an adult. She deserves better than 'puppy dog crush' and 'immature girl'. She was an empowered woman treated badly by a man and then by the press. No more, no less.