Paul Janka Accused Of Attempted Date Rape?

Here’s an article from the website Gawker.com about a girl who’s accusing Paul Janka of trying to force himself on her…

We’ve made fun of self-styled pickup artist and creepy sexual compulsive Paul Janka countless times: he’s slept with 146 (or so) women. He wrote an e-book layguide on how to get girls. He’s shopping an Entourage-type TV show to Showtime. However, he’s graduated from amusing obnoxiousness to distinctly unfunny sexual assault, according to Emily, a woman who went on a date with him. Paul doesn’t even dispute her claim that he grabbed her, pinned her down, tried to fingerfuck her, and shoved his tongue in her mouth. (She only got away after fighting and hitting him with an umbrella.) Her account, and Janka’s reply (she was on a date “under false pretenses,” he says), after the jump.

Okay, so I read the account over on Gawker (which seems to REALLY hate Paul Janka. Did the guy bang the editor’s girl, or something?), and they make a big deal of PJ not disputing the girl’s story. However, there are certain things that set off my Spider Sense about the girl’s recollection of what happened.

Now, I’m sure some of it is probably true. It wouldn’t surprise me if Paul made some aggressive moves on the girl (that seems to be consistent with his style), but I seriously doubt that it was a “violent” and “tawdry” as it sounds.

From the way this girl’s account reads, its like she went to meet the guy with the idea already in her mind that she was going to douche all over him. And as far as him assaulting her, I think there’s a fine line between being aggressive with a girl and being a crazed rapist. It sounds to me like if PJ was really going to try and rape this girl, he had numerous chances to do it, but kept backing off because of her insistence.

Now, I wasn’t there, and this is probably going to devolve into a “he said / she said” deal, but it just seems to me like this girl was out to crucify Paul from the get-go (I mean, she rejected the guy until she found out he was a professional pick up artist, and THEN decided to go on a date with him. Suspect? Yeah.), so that makes me think that maybe things didn’t play out exactly as she recalls them.

Of course, in this society, we’re all trained to believe the girl first and shit all over the guy, even if he didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t know if PJ really did all the things this girl claims – and if he did, he should be punished for it – but anyone who’s been in the game any amount of time can tell you: girls are crazy and they will do messed up shit to you for no good reason.

I think PJ might have a target on him because of his quazi-celebrity reputation. He’d better watch his back.