The founder of an online sperm bank that claimed to champion single women and lesbians faced a court accused of rape on Tuesday.
John Gonzalez is said to have spotted his accuser as she walked out of a nightclub towards a cash machine and offered to give her a lift.
He demanded to be called Sir before forcing himself on the 22-year-old, it was claimed.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police she faked pleasure in an attempt to make Gonzalez stop after he told her he had a taste for bigger women. When he eventually dropped her at home the woman rang the police and Gonzalez – the founder of the Man Not Included sperm bank – was arrested at his home the following day.
Gonzalez launched what was billed as the world’s first sperm donor service to help lesbians become parents in June 2002. Man Not Included allowed women to state the race, eye colour, height and weight of donors over the Internet and men donated their sperm anonymously at clinics.
On Tuesday he went on trial before jurors at Aylesbury Crown Court charged with two counts of sexual assault and a single charge of rape, both of which he denies.
Jurors heard how the woman left the nightclub in the early hours of the morning on February 6 and walked to get cash for a taxi after her friends had left while she was in the toilet. Prosecutor George Heimler said: ‘The defendant asked the victim for directions and offered her a lift. He took her to a car park and that is where we say he committed sexual offences.
‘The defendant asked the victim if she wanted a lift and said that he could not have her walking on her own, she said ‘thank you’ and got in to the car.
‘She received a phone call from her friend. The defendant asked, according to the complainant, who it was and she said it was her boyfriend. She said her housemates would be expecting her home in 20 minutes.
‘The defendant grabbed her hand and said she was a very nice lady and he told her that he liked bigger women.’
Jurors heard that Gonzalez turned off the main road and pulled into a car park in Loudwater, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The prosecutor told the court: ‘The defendant then leans over and starts touching her stomach and thigh and she kept on saying “you are taking me home, you are taking me home”.
‘He responded by saying he was a gentleman and he would take her home. She started to panic and he began talking to her in a dominating manner saying “are you going to do what Sir wants?” He was feeling her breasts and kissing her, he then started touching her.’
Jurors heard how the woman claimed to police that she pretended to have an orgasm so that Gonzalez would stop touching her. However, he allegedly then forced the terrified woman to perform a sex act on him.
Gonzalez eventually dropped the woman near her home and left. The woman told her friends what had happened before calling the police.
Mr Heimler added: ‘He was arrested the following day and he maintained that what happened was far from sexual assault and that she forced herself on to him and that little sexual activity actually took place.’
Former City worker Gonzalez, 54, of High Wycombe, denies a single charge of rape and two counts of sexual assault. The trial continues.
Daily Mail