Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

The line is a sharply comic, sexually explicit rebuttal to a common rhetorical dodge: describing a deliberate sexual encounter as if it were an accident. By reducing the euphemism to physical absurdity—“I fell down” and “there just happened to be an erection”—the speaker exposes how language can be used to evade responsibility, minimize consent questions, or soften betrayal. The humor works as a defense mechanism, turning embarrassment or anger into biting wit. In Hamilton’s fiction, such blunt, sardonic narration often signals a character refusing to be gaslit or patronized, insisting on naming events plainly rather than accepting a self-serving narrative.