Max Mosley denies Nazi element to orgy

Motorsport president Max Mosley denied in court today that he had been involved in a Nazi orgy, saying he could not think of anything less erotic.

"I can think of few things more unerotic than Nazi role-play", said Mosley, president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body for formula one.

Mosley is suing the News of the World for breach of privacy over allegations that he was involved in what the paper called a "sick Nazi orgy" with five prostitutes.

Mosley, 68-year-old son of 1930s fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, rejected any suggestion that the sadomasochistic role-play had Nazi overtones, saying this had no appeal for him.

"All my life I had it hanging over me with the undercurrent from my parents and the last thing I would want to do is for that to enter my sexual life," Mosley told Mr. Justice Eady in the high court in London.

Mosley, the FIA president since 1993, said the News of the World front-page story and website video had a "devastating" effect on his family.

"My wife and I have been married for more than 48 years and together more than 50 years since we were teenagers and she never knew this aspect of my life," Mosley said.

"That headline in the News of the World was completely and utterly devastating for her and there was nothing I could say.

"For my two sons, I don't think there is anything worse for a son to see in a newspaper article, especially in a newspaper like News of the World, the pictures they printed. I can think of nothing more undignified."

Mosley looked slightly uncomfortable as he was asked to explain sadomasochism (S&M) to the judge. He said that role-play was an integral part of this because it provided a justification for the central activity of punishment.

"I fundamentally disagree with the suggestion that any of this is depraved or immoral. It's a perfectly harmless activity provided it's between consenting adults in private and nobody knows about it," he said. More at The Guardian [Related Article]

[Editor's Note: After incurring a $100 million fine last year from Max Mosley and the FIA over the Stepneygate affair, McLaren's Ron Dennis must roll on the floor in a fit of laughter reading these stories about Mosley. Jackie Stewart and Paul Stoddart are two others that come to mind as probably taking great joy from all of this.]