He is married but seems to have had consensual affairs with junior associates.

A great nation does not overturn two national elections and throw a President out of office because he denied having a consensual affair.

Norquist admitted to a five-year consensual affair, but the case refused to go away.

My own case dragged on for months, swamped with innuendos - if another student was having a clandestine consensual affair, why couldn't I have been too?

Captain Flanagan has acknowledged to his superiors that he had a consensual sexual affair with a female lieutenant outside his command.

You argue that the military shouldn't investigate "consensual sexual affairs unless they have a direct bearing on job performance" or on discipline.

A consensual affair would be an improvement!

"The President had a private consensual sexual affair and lied about it," he declared.

I am also here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony.

That would rule out almost any investigation or punishment of private consensual affairs between military personnel and civilians who are not part of the same command.