Two questions: appendages and caught up

1) Does " to bend the president’s ear, one must first pay lip service to other appendages" mean "to make the president to hear you, you must first ...(appendages here refer to penis?)"?
2) Does "caught up in her own victimization" mean "(Lewinsky sacrifices herself to desribe the "bigger picture""?

Context:

The media’s obsession with Lewinsky stole the narrative of Bill Clinton’s history of alleged sexual harassment from people like Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey, who were less enthused by his attention. And what about all the other White House interns who may have thought that, to bend the president’s ear, one must first pay lip service to other appendages? This is the bigger picture of harassment that Lewinsky—understandably caught up in her own victimization—may not be capable of seeing.