Lena Dunham Responds To Accusations That She Sexually Abused Her Sister

Dunham went on a self-described “rage spiral” on Saturday, calling the accusations against her disgusting.

Kevin D. Williamson, a columnist for the conservative-leaning magazine National Review, accused Lena Dunham this weekend of admitting to sexual abuse in her new memoir Not That Kind of Girl.

Kevin D. Williamson, a columnist for the conservative-leaning magazine National Review , accused Lena Dunham this weekend of admitting to sexual abuse in her new memoir Not That Kind of Girl .

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Dunham writes of casually masturbating while in bed next to her younger sister, of bribing her with "three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds . . . anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying." At one point, when her sister is a toddler, Lena Dunham pries open her vagina — "my curiosity got the best of me," she offers, as though that were an explanation.

In one particularly unsettling passage, Dunham experimented with her six-year younger sister's vagina. "This was within the spectrum of things I did," she writes.

In the collection of nonfiction personal accounts, Dunham describes using her little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet, bribing her to kiss her for prolonged periods and even masturbating while she is in the bed beside her.


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