5 Women Look Back on Sex With Men in Charge

The Cut spoke with five women who are seeing their experiences with bosses, mentors, or teachers differently today. There are a few common threads: The women were all under 22 when the relationships began; they were approached by men who were older, sometimes by decades; and they considered their relationships to be consensual at the time. Here are their stories.

I was 19 and I got an internship at a record label. The boss was in his late 30s and was this hot-shot executive who was totally self-made. I admired him, and I wanted him to like me.

One day, he called all the interns into his office to listen to a new song. There were a bunch of us in the room, but he singled me out and asked me what I thought. I felt special.

Not long after, he gave me his personal phone number and told me to call him, and we started having these long conversations after work, which would start with him saying things like, “What are you ambitions? I want to help you.” After a couple of weeks, he told me how pretty I looked and was leaving notes on my desk and taking me to dinner. Then one night he said, “You know what would be really great? If we had phone sex right now.” I can’t believe this now, but I did it. I was on the phone at my parents’ house and he asked me to tell him how big his dick was and then he came loudly into the phone. After I was like, “Okay, I have to go,” and I felt immediately regretful and dirty and like I had been backed into a corner.

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