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Victorious Max Mosley Bares All

'Sex is funny' but tabloids are ravenous, says S&M-loving motorsport boss

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 20, 2008 8:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – When a British tabloid exposed Max Mosley's predilection for rough sex under the headline "F1 Boss Has Sick Nazi Orgy With 5 Hookers," he surprised everyone by going to court—and winning a record $120,000 in damages. Now the head of world motorsport tells the Guardian that the press has to be reined in, and that he'll never say sorry for his taste for sadomasochism.

"They can't talk about morality, they are immoral themselves," the FIA president says of the tabloid editors who unveiled the 45-year sexual double life he kept from his wife and children. Mosley thinks newspaper editors should have to contact people before dishing their dirt, and he’s pushing the European Court of Human Rights to stiffen British privacy laws.

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Motor racing boss Max Mosley leaves the Royal Courts of Justice, after winning a privacy-invasion lawsuit over claims he took part in a Nazi-themed orgy, in London, Thursday, July 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

FIA President Max Mosley returns to the High Court in London, Monday, July 14, 2008. Mosley has sued English weekly newspaper News of the World for breach of privacy, Monday, July 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Max Mosley, International Automobile Federation (FIA) president looks on before the the beginning of the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship in South Shuneh, Jordan. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud, File)

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I mean, in the end, I did it, and it is funny. Sex is funny. Most people's sex lives, if you had the whole detail, would be quite funny. That's the point—why you don't have the detail—because it's not right to laugh at people in that way. - Max Mosley

The government has got something to answer for, for allowing this Murdoch culture. - Max Mosley, on British press freedom

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Victorious Max Mosley Bares All