Aziz Ansari: Assaulter, oblivious, or somewhere in between?

Published January 17, 2018 3:24am ET



Over the weekend, a website called Babe published an anonymous account of a sexual encounter between a then-22-year-old photographer called “Grace” and Aziz Ansari, creator and star of the popular Netflix series “Master of None.”

In the article, Grace described the date as one of the worst nights of her life. Dinner felt rushed, per Grace’s account, and Ansari quickly took her back to his place, where he placed her on top of his kitchen counter and started kissing her and giving her oral sex. He undressed her, then himself, and Ansari mentioned he was going to grab a condom before Grace told him to slow down. The article then describes a kind of tug-a-war between Grace and Ansari, a negotiation of sexual acts where she didn’t clearly state that she wanted to stop, but where he seemed somewhat forceful and oblivious to her discomfort.

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