Yesterday evening, the New York Times published details from Bill Cosby’s depositionfor the 2005 civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee who accused Cosby of drugging and sexually abusing her. This deposition is related to the trial documents only recently unsealed which reveal Cosby’s admission of obtaining quaaludes with the intention to give them to women before pursuing sexual contact with them.

In the deposition, Cosby admitted to pursuing young women for sex by offering them mentorship and career advice, giving them sedatives and using what the Times calls “financial sleight of hand” to conceal his activities from his wife, Camille. The Times characterizes Cosby’s attitude during the deposition as “cavalier”:

He talked of the 19-year-old aspiring model who sent him her poem and ended up on his sofa, where, Mr. Cosby said, she pleasured him with lotion. He spoke with casual disregard about ending a relationship with another model so he could pursue other women. “Moving on,” was his phrase. He suggested he was skilled in picking up the nonverbal cues that signal a woman’s consent. “I think I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them,” he said.

The details of his interest in Constand reveal an intentional pursuit of the younger woman. He described his role as a mentor, and said he would invite Constand to his house to talk to her about “personal situations dealing with her life, growth, education”: