A young man accused of setting up a fake female Facebook profile to entice teenage boys into having sex with him will argue one of the men was "up for it", a court has heard.
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Billy Tamawiwy, 23, went on trial in the ACT Supreme Court on Monday, accused of targeting seven young men in 2013 and 2014, using the fictitious Facebook profile of "Tayla Edwards".
His conversations with the men quickly became sexualised, and Tamawiwy, posing as Ms Edwards, attempted to arrange meetings for sex.
Prosecutor Trent Hickey said one of the young men had reluctantly agreed to an arrangement in which he would have sex with a man named "Christian", really Tamawiwy, before getting to have sex with Ms Edwards and two of her friends.
Tamawiwy, the court heard, sent explicit images purporting to picture Ms Edwards and her friends to entice him.
The man, after initially rebuffing the attempts, drunk significant amounts of vodka and met with Tamawiwy in August last year.
The accused began massaging the man, making him uncomfortable and prompting words to the effect of:
"Can we just get on with it?"
The pair had sexual intercourse, which was filmed by Tamawiwy, but the court heard the alleged victim continued to feel uncomfortable and struggled to maintain an erection.
The next day, the complainant was contacted by Ms Edwards who arranged to meet up with him on London Circuit, to arrange for the promised sex with her and her two friends.
When the man went to the location, no one answered the buzzer, and a phone number provided by Ms Edwards went to a voicemail for LJ Hooker real estate.
Prosecutors said Tamawiwy then messaged the man threatening to send video and images of their encounter to friends, family, and colleagues.
The court heard explicit material was later sent to the man's younger brother and Facebook friends.
Scared, he went to police, who later arrested Tamawiwy. During a search of his home, Tamawiwy allegedly made admissions that he had set up the Tayla Edwards profile, had sex with the man, and knew the man was only having sex with him so he could have intercourse with Ms Edwards.
Tamawiwy has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent, an act of indecency, and using a carriage service to transmit offensive material.
He pleaded guilty to other charges on Monday.
Defence barrister James Lawton used his opening submission to tell the jury that much of the allegations were admitted.
But he said the key issues in dispute were whether the man involved in the intercourse was "up for it" and was consenting, and whether some of the messages sent on Facebook by Tamawiwy could be considered offensive.
"Can I urge you ladies and gentlemen to put aside any initial reaction you may have to these charges," Mr Lawton said.
"This isn't a court of morals and your role is not to pass moral judgment on Mr Tamawiwy or [the victim]."
Mr Hickey, however, said that any "apparent consent" was negated by Tamawiwy's deception.
Later on Monday, police interviews with a number of teenagers who were contacted by Tamawiwy and the fake Ms Edwards profile were played to the court.
One told police of seeing a media report detailing rape allegations against Tamawiwy, and thinking it was almost "word for word" the same as what happened to him.
The teenager, who had refused to meet with Tamawiwy, said he still had nightmares about the experience.
"I was 100 per cent sure that if I went there I would have been raped by someone pretending to be a chick," he said.
The trial continues before Justice Richard Refshauge on Tuesday.
