Eric Schneiderman’s absurd excuses make an excellent argument for affirmative consent.

"On Monday evening, the New Yorker published the accounts of four women who say New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman subjected them to physical abuse. Two of Schneiderman’s former girlfriends, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, claim he slapped them across the face repeatedly, often during sex, without their consent, causing enough harm to warrant trips to medical professionals. Both say he violently choked them and threatened to kill them if they ever broke up with him. A third former girlfriend told Selvaratnam that Schneiderman choked and hit her in bed, too.

Another woman, who declined to use her name in the story, told the magazine that a very drunken Schneiderman brought her to a place he was staying in the Hamptons after a party. As they were making out, he told her that women with high-powered jobs often want men to take charge in bed. “He became more sexually aggressive,” according to the New Yorker, and as the woman drew away, he slapped her across the face two times. She yelled at him and started crying. He said he’d misjudged her desires. “You’d really be surprised,” Schneiderman allegedly said. “A lot of women like it. They don’t always think they like it, but then they do, and they ask for more.” ..."