Lolita? Vixen? Naif?

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Victim, predator, slut? Is it possible for a young American woman to not know what she is going in having an affair with a married man? Was she dazzled by reflected celebrity? Or calculated the fame that would come from revelation?

Bianchi put my teeth on edge. I am offended by her giggles — inappropriate in the face of the pain she has caused another woman — and offended by her victim act. “He” didn’t take it to another level alone. “They” took it to another level.

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But don’t tell me that in today’s world — a virtual cornucopia of sex talk, sex images and O.C. babes — an 18-year-old (Bianchi’s age when they began the affair, and the age at which young women in fatigues are dying in Iraq) can hide behind a claim of naivete or harassment.

A 19-year-old’s high-profile affair with the husband of model Christie Brinkley is typical, and so is her kiss-and-tell approach.