Men are supposed to want it, right? - Roland
Roland was a high flyer in his thirties and known in his industry. Newly divorced from a marriage of many years, he was apprehensive about entering into another relationship.
Once, after a networking event on a Friday night, he and his friends segued to a nearby club with a few ladies from another agency.
One of the women, Rei, had a crush on Roland.
The group spent the evening playing drinking games, with group-prescribed penalties that were increasingly physical as they became more inebriated.
When the group called it a night, Roland and Rei shared a cab back. She said she was staying in the same area.
In the cab, she requested to stay with Roland till morning. "I don't want to disturb my household," she said.
Roland, inebriated and tired, agreed.
While at his apartment, Rei emerged from the shower undressed before proceeding to his bedroom.
What happened next, Roland would struggle to piece together clearly. The alcohol. The exhaustion. The surprise of her walking in naked. The blur of it all.
Roland and Rei began a dating relationship later that week.
When his friends asked him how it happened, he said simply, "We slept together."