Word: orality
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Adultery is still illegal in the District of Columbia. Have sexual relations with a woman not your wife, the lawbooks say, and you're looking at 180 days in jail and a $500 fine. And until 1995, sodomy, including oral sex, was illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex President Clinton did or did not have with Monica Lewinsky, his legal problems don't lie with the morals section of D.C. local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have...
...deposition, and he has proved adept at phrasing answers with lawyerly attention to detail. The statement, "There is no sexual relationship," for example, could let him off the hook if there was an affair in the past that is now over, or if he succeeded with a claim that oral sex did not constitute a "sexual relationship...
Thanks to Clinton we have two other problems: having to explain to the kids over Cheerios not the significance of a visit to Cuba by the most famous celibate in the world but just why it is that a perky anchorperson is talking about something called oral sex. The second, perhaps more lasting problem is the legal precedent set by this ballooning investigation. Until last week, the criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning...
...wide world of public affairs. My son knows something is up with President Clinton, but he's not sure what, precisely, and I'm not sure I want to explain it to him. Suddenly the words Oval Office pop out from the newsreader, and then President, then oral sex, and my son's brow furrows. He looks up at me, thoroughly puzzled. I reach for the mute button and kill the sound from the TV. This is not what the civics books had in mind...
REAL LIFE: On tape, intern allegedly recounts tales of oral sex with President in back room of White House...