They always denied it was about the sex though. Even at the time. We all knew it was, but they constantly were claiming it was about lying on the stand.
And then Larry Flynt inadvertently helped them on that front when trying to shame them by putting out a report detailing all the Republican congresspeople who had affairs. I appreciate what he tried to do, but that made it even easier for them to say it wasn’t about the sex since no one got rid of them for an affair.