He gave her something to help her out. Could have been written a tad better though. Nowhere near as rapey as the article implys.
The problem of course is the whole scenario of slipping an unknown agent into another characters drink, without their consent, altering her perceptions is just wrong. That's not something that is done at the behest of helping the victim as much as it feels like lame ****** or service to toung Japanese boys-- it doesn't change anything. Instead of reinforcing such garbage, without any internal debate or critique to the subject they could instead have it be that she simply isn't attracted to males.