The man’s recorded police interview was played to a jury at the County Court at Ballarat on Friday.

The man in his 20s, who The Courier cannot name for legal reasons, told police the woman mostly asked him to tie her up, call her names during sex and spank her. 

When asked if it was ever rough, the man replied, “a couple of times, she wanted me to slap her”.

Police told the man there was an allegation he raped the woman in March 2015 by waking her up at 11.30pm and telling her to take off her clothes.

“She was lying on her stomach in the bed and you pushed her head in the pillow,” the police officer said. “She told you to get off because her parents would hear.”

The man then told police it sounded similar to the way they had sex, saying it was consensual.

Police also questioned the man over going through the woman’s phone and finding text messages from her former partner.

They asked him how that made him feel: “I was angry the first couple of times but after a while I was just sad,” the man told police.

On Friday, the jury heard evidence from one of the woman’s friends who said she had a conversation with the woman before police became involved.

Her friend told her the man made her do things she did not want to do, including filming her and making her strip for him, the witness said.

She said the woman “told me he had burnt her clothes while she was wearing them and forced himself on to her sexually”.

The man has pleaded not guilty to nine charges, including four counts of rape and one count each of assault, false imprisonment, burglary and recklessly conduct endangering a person.

Defence barrister Daniel McGlone told the jury on Tuesday his client denied the allegations and he was innocent unless the prosecution could prove otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.

The trial will continue on Monday before Judge Michael McInerney.