A number of readers have corrected me about Monica Lewinsky’s age. She was apparently 22, not 19 or 20 as I recalled. That doesn’t change my bottom line, but I do concede that this gives more force to Ramesh’s point about age.

I was saying there’s not a lot of difference b/w 19-20 and 16-17. But there is considerable difference between, say, 22 and 16. Doesn’t change my mind — because, as I said, I think there’s a lot more to the moral calculation here than age. But it’s important to get it accurate.