Then it's a "straight" issue when it involves 16- and 17-year-old girls.
Sauce for the goose.
Studds (geez, the name alone...) brazened it out and was returned to office. Crane apologized and was treated like someone who did something he needed to apologize for.
Crane was actually closer to mere adultery rather than corrupting the morals of a minor, because girls reach their majority earlier than boys do.
Studds needed to find out that "consensual" doesn't apply when one's partner is a minor. I'd give people a little leeway when the age difference between the legal adult and the minor is only a couple of years, but a Congressman by law has to be at least 25 years old, which is way too old to have consensual sex with a 17-year-old. He should have been censured, at least.