Is Trading Sex for Political Advance (i.e. Kamala Harris) Now Ethical?

Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris apparently had a solid sex relationship with the married speaker and later San Francisco mayor WiIlie Brown. He helped her with three political jobs; two well paying appointments to commissions and a District Attorney campaign. While women trading sex for favors outside of marriage isn't a new thing, using sex to get political boosts raises ethical questions concerning what are valid ways of promoting candidates in a democracy/meritocracy.

Apparently the former S.F. mayor and California State Assembly godfather-operator boosted several well known California politicians including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in yet undisclosed ways.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-willie-brown-on-his-relationship-with-kamala-harris-2019-1

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-san-francisco-ghosts-in-kamala-harris-past

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/kamala-harris-california-voters-538851

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/kamala_harriss_free_lapd_guards_not_her_first_corruption_rodeo.html

http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/11/the-performative-feminism-of-kamala-h

President Trump has experienced withering flamethrower quality criticism of alleged sex relationships that did no include political promotion and then comes along this Kamala Harris clown car of confirmable sex-ethical swampiness that makes the 2020 campaign look like a swamp-sewer with an odor worthy of cancelling the election (to go one better than cancelling the state of the Union address).

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-san-francisco-mayor-addresses-past-relationship-with-sen-kamala-harris

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/29/the-worlds-20-most-corrupt-countries/23655929/