Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series *The Sandman *and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports.

The allegations were made during Tortoise’s four-part podcast Master: the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman, which was released Wednesday. In it, the women allege “rough and degrading sex” with the author, which the women claim was not always consensual.

One of the women, a 23-year-old named Scarlett, worked as a nanny to his child.

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    3 months ago

    I have no idea if he’s a bad guy or wrongfully accused…but these two stories don’t sound convincing at all.

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      Two separate unrelated people.

      Both in their twenties

      Invites them into second/third base consensual relations and then it turns into rough sex.

      I think that it’s an absolutely reasonable assumption that he is into younger women and doesn’t stop after he gets the green light.

      But the article is light on details, and he at least deserves to have his say in court over it.

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        I think that it’s an absolutely reasonable assumption that he is into younger women and doesn’t stop after he gets the green light.

        Why do you this is an absolutely reasonable assumption?

        Into younger women is pretty normal, but raping isn’t normal. Do you mean it’s a reasonable assumption given these accusations?

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        3 months ago

        So your addition to the conversation is that we should not have a conversation. Got it

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          The contribution I read is: If you didn’t have specific evidence or context to add, then throwing in a ‘don’t trust women claiming SA’ is counterproductive. May not have been OP’s intent, but that’s what a vague distrust of the women’s stories sounds like.