Wollongong dentist Arthur Bosanquet promised an Illawarra man he would be paid $150 if he masturbated in front of him as part of a university study which later turned out to be a sham, a court has heard.
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The alleged victim, who cannot be named, told Kiama Local Court on Friday that he was being treated by the respected oral and maxillofacial surgeon in 2006 and 2007 for a broken jaw - sustained during an assault in September 2006 - when Bosanquet asked if he was interested in joining the study.
"He explained he was undertaking a study on behalf of Wollongong University ... to do with [researchers] coming up with a new pill for people with high blood pressure to help them maintain an erection during intercourse," the man said.
"He said I had to masturbate and he would be taking blood samples while I was doing it.
"At the time I was unemployed, I needed money.
"He offered me $150 to do it."
The man told the court he agreed, thinking Bosanquet would connect him "to a drip" in order to extract the blood.
However, he claimed the reality was far different, and left him feeling "sick and embarrassed".
He said he arrived to an empty surgery around 5.30 one afternoon in February 2007, and Bosanquet locked the front door behind them, prompting the man to become worried.
"I was thinking the worst ... as you see in movies ... I knew something not good was going to happen, I was scared," he said.
Bosanquet led him through to his room and told him to lie in the chair and take off his pants.
The man told the court he advised Bosanquet he no longer wanted to participate in the study, however Bosanquet reassured him what they were doing was a legitimate study.
But the man was not convinced.
"I looked at the windows to see if I could run [but] they had mesh on them, and I knew I couldn't get out the front doors as they were locked," he said.
"I thought 'the only way I'm going to get out of here is to go through with it'."
The man said Bosanquet sat very close to him while he was performing the sexual act, only turning away once he'd climaxed.
The man told the court the incident had left him suffering significant psychological harm, including post traumatic stress disorder, and he had been in and out of mental hospitals.
He said he did not go to police with the allegations until 2010 - even after having read about Bosanquet being convicted of similar incidents in 2008 - because he was too "mentally unstable" to deal with it.
Bosanquet was charged with three counts of common assault and one count of inciting a person over 16 years to commit an act of indecency last November.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges, electing a hearing.
During cross-examination from Bosanquet's lawyer on Friday, the man denied he was making the claim up.
"It's imprinted in my head, what happened," the man said.
However, he did concede he had a poor memory when it came to recalling times and dates.
