Jeff,
Females have chosen dominant, powerful males since before our ancestors began the long march out of Olduvai Gorge.
They are just “doin’ what comes naturally”.
I understand that...it is sadly, among some (certainly not all) a common thing.
I am commenting more on Putin than the girl. I mean Monica Lewinsky was an adult too and chose the path that was opened to her. That does not mean that Clinton did not take abject advantage of a younger, more naive person for his own gratification, and that what he did in the matter was not wrong both morally and ethically.
What Putin did fits the same mold. Just another place, another face. But the base motivations are the same...on both sides.