Best damn sexual assault program in the country

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/8/2014 03:09 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>"Dazed, he leads her into his room."
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>In context, *she* is the one who is "dazed," not he. Apparently, the rule
>of thumb for any style of written intercourse, given the headline, is,
>"Leave the semantics as an exercise for the reader."

This, of course, will be his defense plea -- "Your honor, when I
sexually assaulted her I didn't know what I was doing -- I was dazed."

Joel



>On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:42 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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