Monica Lewinsky on Bill Clinton and #MeToo in Vanity Fair - The Washington Post

PS: At age 44, Monica Lewinsky changed her mind about the competency of her consent to have sex with Bill Clinton. At the time of the affair, she was 24 and clearly what most people would consider a competent adult. She called the affair consensual. In a June 2014 article, at age 40, she reaffirmed that she regarded the affair as consensual. Now in this March 2018 article, at age 44 and in light of the #MeToo movement, she reconsiders and suggests that the power imbalance compromised the competency of her consent. That's my paraphrase of a long article. She said the affair was "not sexual assault" but a "gross abuse of power". 

This long, drawn-out reinterpretation of her own action makes consent even more complicated than we might have thought. BTW, she says this too.

"Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of the power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern. I’m beginning to entertain the notion that in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot. (Although power imbalances—and the ability to abuse them—do exist even when the sex has been consensual.) But it’s also complicated. Very, very complicated...."