[Lee N. Field]

This is eerie. I do not remember much being made of this at the time.

Funny how the memory goes....

A 17 year old page? And he actually had sex with him?

And then didn't resign?

I'm finding this all hard to believe.

Two sex with pages scandals at the same time. A conservative Republican (Dan Crane, brother of Phil) from downstate Illinois had consensual, adultrous sex with a female page. And this Studds geek, a liberal Devilcrat who had sex (possibly coerced, my memory on that is fuzzy) with a male page. Guess who stayed in ofice.

[megatherium]

And this Studds geek, a liberal Devilcrat who had sex (possibly coerced, my memory on that is fuzzy)

Not coerced. According to the AP story as it appears on the NY Times web site, "Studds defended the relationship as a consensual relationship with a young adult. The page later appeared publicly with Studds in support of him."