A man has pleaded guilty to common assault after squirting his girlfriend with brown sauce because she refused to stop reading aloud passages from racy novel 50 Shades Of Grey.
Raymond Hodgson, 31, told the Carlisle News and Star had been his intention to show his girlfriend Emma McCormick the real definition of "saucy" after becoming angered that his girlfriend was indulging in the erotic bestseller.
Hodgson described the tome as "distasteful" and "pornographic" in a police interview.
The bestselling book by EL James tells the story of a young university student who engages in a voyage of sexual discovery with businessman Christian Grey.
Selling more than 20 million copies worldwide, the novel has been dubbed "mummy porn" because of its popularity with suburban mothers.
Carlisle Magistrates Court heard that the argument over the erotic novel escalated over two days after the initial row over the reading aloud of the passages.
After a number of texts were exchanged, matters came to a head and Hodgson went over to McCormick's house armed with a bottle of brown sauce.
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