Here’s our questiuon of the day. If Adam Clayton Powell 4th is son of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., what happened to the 3rd? Here’s our other question: if Boog Powell were still playing baseball, would he have to drop the nickname with all the Powells in high government office?

New York- Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell 4th publicly acknowledged yesterday having sex with the two women accusing him of rape – but said they agreed to it.

“The sex was consensual,” the 42-year-old Harlem lawmaker declared at a contentious news conference on the steps of City Hall.

At the same time, Powell made public the results of two lie-detector tests that he said prove he did not rape a 38-year-old woman in an upper West Side apartment July 1, as she has alleged.

He also repeated his denial of an earlier rape accusation by a 19-year-old legislative intern in Albany. The intern recanted but was later said to be going back to her initial account.

Powell, son of legendary Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., said that as a single man, he has a right to a sex life.

“My intimate personal life is personal and very private,” he said as he was peppered with questions about the propriety of having sex with a teenage intern.

“Maybe we should outlaw single men from intimacy,” he snapped. “There was consensual sex both times.”

Powell, who is seeking reelection this fall, has not been criminally charged in either case.

Yesterday, the embattled lawmaker disclosed he spent four hours taking two lie-detector tests, one Friday, one Monday, and had been cleared by renowned polygraph expert Richard Arther.

“It is the final opinion of the polygraphists that he is telling the truth,” Arther said in a letter made public by Powell.

Polygraphs are generally not admissible in New York courts but defense attorneys sometimes use them in an attempt to forestall indictments.

Powell’s lawyer, Murray Richman, said he was forwarding the test results to the office of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.