Still, Ms. Lewinsky's lawyer has been going around claiming that people have been taking advantage of a 24-year old girl. The tenor of his comments suggests that 24-year olds are immature and unable to articulate their feelings and desires. Harumph! Someone should remind the medical malpractice lawyer that even 18-year-olds are considered adults; a 24-year old employee of the Pentagon is nobody's candidate for naivette. And even if 24-years is an immature age in the lawyer's estimate, youth does not equal insanity; it is neither excuse nor defense. Whatever Ms. Lewinsky did or declined to do, her lawyer shouldn't be invoking erroneous notions. Twenty-four-year olds are quite capable of forming judgement.
