So You Meet a Guy Through a Site Called Vampire Freaks: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Plenty could go wrong, of course, if you show up to meet your dream date and he's upset with the fact you're 16.

I pray the young lady will be OK, but these kids (and their parents) need to be exercising some better judgment to prevent getting into such situations.

AN ADELAIDE man accused of biting, whipping and having unlawful sex with a girl he met via a vampire website has told a court he was furious when he learned she was underage.

Warwick Harold Acott, 39, of Seaton, told the South Australian District Court today he met the girl, who cannot be named, after she saw a profile he posted on the website vampirefreaks.com in 2004 or 2005, and emailed him.

Acott is accused of pushing his way into the girl's house on June 18, 2006, when she was aged 16, and slapping her, biting her on the breast and forcing her to perform fellatio.

He allegedly whipped her bottom with a cat o' nine tails before leaving.

His trial has been told Acott contacted the girl after seeing her profile on the website and began sending her messages that swung between friendly and sexually violent - including telling her he liked to rape people.

OK, isn't that a fairly clear signal you may not want to go meet with this, um, freak?

Acott has pleaded not guilty.

Giving evidence for the first time today, Acott said the girl initiated email contact, saying she thought pictures on his vampirefreaks.com profile were "gorgeous''.

She said she was "19, horny (and) do you want to hook up?'', he said, adding a photograph of her showed an attractive "Goth'' with black eye makeup and lips.

Two weeks later, they met in the centre of Adelaide where the heavily made up girl told him she was a "pain junkie" into bondage and discipline.

"And she thought I was absolutely gorgeous and she wanted to be my slut and whore,'' he said.

"To be honest, I thought that was absolutely fantastic.''

Just days later, there was another email from her, he said.

"She was expressing a very keen interest in being my whore.

"Telling me I was the most beautiful man she had ever seen in her life. She would do anything I wanted.''

They met again in central Adelaide - but this time she was conservatively dressed and looked much younger.

Acott says he confronted her about her age in a Hungry Jacks diner - and she winked and told him she was only 15.