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Convicted rapist Brad Shipton is defending himself from behind bars following the latest claims of sordid orgies, shackles and police batons.
Shipton has admitted being in a homemade pornographic video but says he wasn't cruel to the woman involved and didn't use shackles on her.
He also denies allegations that an area in the back of a pub he owned was done up "like a little dominatrix kind of bondage room".
Lawyer Bill Nabney, who spoke to Shipton yesterday morning by phone, said his client did not deny that a video was made but challenged parts of the woman's story, including the claim that serving police officers were involved.
"He doesn't recall ever having had sexual relations with her along with serving police officers, so effectively he's not accepting that that part of it occurred."
Pictures from the video appeared in the Sunday News after the woman came forward saying she had participated in group sex with serving and former police officers between the mid-1990s and 2002 in the Bay of Plenty.
She said officers used police handcuffs and batons on her, that she was the victim of a role-play "controlled rape" and was shackled to the ceiling of the building by Shipton, who bit her before having sex with her.
While the woman said the encounters were consensual at the time, she now believed Shipton and the others had exploited her "like a circus seal".
She has not yet decided if she will go to the police with evidence of what happened.
Mr Nabney said Shipton wondered why the woman had come forward now.
Shipton accepted the video was made some time after September 2001 but said it was not shot secretly.
Mr Nabney was not aware of why the videotape had been made.
Photos had also allegedly been taken.
