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Lena Dunham hits back at claims she 'experimented sexually' on her sister

A conservative website claims that a Dunham describes sexual abuse in her new book.

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WRITER AND ACTRESS Lena Dunham has lashed out at claims she sexually abused her younger sister after a website claimed that a passage in her book described her doing just that.

TruthRevolt.org, which Dunham describes as “right wing”,  claimed that a section of her book Not That Kind Of Girl in which she details an interaction between she and her sister Grace amounts to “experimenting sexually”.

The passage reads:

turth Source: TruthRevolt.org

In a series of tweets Dunham hit back at the claims that she ‘used’ her “little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet”:

TruthRevolt.org was launched in October 2013 by conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and David Horowitz. It has previously published stories about Dunham’s on-screen nudity and her ‘bible mocking’ on Saturday Night Live.

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