Tabloid: F1 chief's orgy not just 'hanky spanky'

(CNN) -- Formula One chief Max Mosley's sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes was not just "hanky spanky," London's High Court has been told.

Mark Warby, QC, making his closing speech for the News of the World, said Mosley was trying to make out that what the newspaper dubbed a "sick Nazi orgy" was "nothing more than hanky-spanky," the British Press Association reported.

Mosley is suing the News of the World for invasion of privacy over a story alleging he attended a five-hour sex session involving Nazi role-play. Mosley has admitted taking part in S&M activities for 45 years but says he finds the idea of Nazi sex fantasies abhorrent.

Mosley, 68, is president of Formula One's governing body -- the FIA -- and the son of the late British fascist politician Oswald Mosley and his wife, Diana Mitford.

Warby told the court there had been talk of "meetings" or "parties" and squeamishness about the use of the word "brutal."

"There was a general attempt both in the written evidence of the women and in oral evidence to present it as some kind of worthy activity attended by the most strict health and safety precautions as though it was all being carried out under the guidance of the Bondage and Sadomasochism Regulatory Authority." Warby said.

"It was even compared with Cowboys and Indians, as though it was nothing more than a dressing-up party for grown-ups. There was an attempt, we suggest quite deliberately, to turn it all into some kind of farce, or to make it sound like a tremendous giggle," Warby said, PA reported.

Warby said the newspaper's case was that the events were "truly grotesque and depraved."

He told Justice Eady: "If nanny stumbled in on Jason and Flora playing the game you have seen on the videos, she would be more than concerned -- appalled -- and so would the children and grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis," PA reported.

Warby said the episode involved "psychological darkness."

"There is a form of corruption of the personality and there is, we suggest, true depravity."

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