'"I woke up with a slight fever and sore throat," she wrote in an email on June 16, 2012, after the Paris trip. I will try very hard not to kiss you — until the

'"I woke up with a slight fever and sore throat," she wrote in an email on June 16, 2012, after the Paris trip. I will try very hard not to kiss you — until the throat situation receives security clearance. This is not an easy deferral!" In July, she wrote a short email to him: "time for your midday kiss. my image during meditation: we’re on the sofa, your head on my lap, stroking you [sic] forehead, playing softly with yr hair, soothing you, headache gone. Yes?"' Her defense is that everything was consensual. The problem is that she was his advisor. Nothing they did was really consensual. If you want to have a truly consensual relationship with someone for whom you are in a position of authority, you have to remove yourself from that position.