This week in pop culture and law is dedicated to Steven Seagal. The action movie and reality tv star is facing a lawsuit by Kayden Nguyen, a 23-year-old former model and air traffic control student, who says he sexually assaulted her. The lawsuit contains very graphic details about numerous encounters, including sexual massages, alleged penetration, and forced drug use. Interestingly, Nguyen refrained from sharing one detail as follows: “Mr. Seagal became sexually aroused and had a unique physiological reaction to sexual arousal…Ms. Nguyen can and will describe in great detail Mr. Seagal’s unique physiological reaction to sexual arousal.” So, how unique could this “physiological reaction” be that Nguyen’s lawyers chose to omit said detail? It must be so “unique” that either they were unable to describe in words (which is unlikely) or they figured hinting at it would cause enough embarrassment to motivate settlement. Of course, the lawsuit also says: “Ms. Nguyen had received formal training as an ABA therapist, and assumed that the ‘massage’ Mr. Seagal expected was a professional therapeutic massage.” Uh-huh. Have a good weekend, Popbytes peeps!
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