MAN ACCUSED OF USING CRAIGSLIST TO TURN WOMEN INTO SEX SLAVES SAY'S HE WAS ONLY PLAYING GAMES!

A Brooklyn man lashed out at the woman he is accused of keeping as a sex slave yesterday, claiming their relationship was consensual and the tryst started when she posted an ad on craigslist looking for a kinky hookup.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview, John Hopkins said he has one question for the Wisconsin woman who has accused him of rape: "Why did you do this to me?"

Wearing a gray Department of Correction jumpsuit, Hopkins, 45, looked disheveled and unshaven as he recalled responding to the ad his accuser posted on craigslist two years ago looking for sex.

The Williamsburg resident said they started to meet up for role-play sex sessions that involved him tying her up as the "slave" while he acted as "master."

"I didn't rape her," insisted Hopkins, who works as an audio engineer. "Everything we did was role-playing. In the game of role-play, the 'slave' actually has the power."

Hopkins is holed up in Rikers Island in lieu of $350,000 bail. He faces a first-degree rape charge and a litany of other charges.

The victim, whose name has not been released, claimed that she was the one to respond to Hopkins' advertisement about a room in his apartment, and he offered her free rent in exchange for cooking.

She said she arrived in the city Feb. 4 and was allegedly gagged, blind-folded and handcuffed to a radiator before being beaten and raped for eight days.

Hopkins said that account is a lie.

"Everything they're saying I did was consensual," Hopkins said. "She could have left if she wanted to, but she didn't."

Hopkins said his kinky sex games with the 27-year-old Midwest woman continued until a few weeks ago when she started drinking heavily.

She left his home, was then kicked out of her friend's apartment on the upper West Side and claimed she crashed in Central Park one night, where she was attacked, Hopkins said.

"I'm convinced those are where the scratches came from," he said. "I didn't do any of that."

Hopkins said the woman returned to his place Friday where she downed half a bottle of vodka.

He said he phoned her mother to tell her the situation and she spoke to her daughter, a sushi chef, for half an hour.

When they hung up, her mother then called the cops and Hopkins was swiftly arrested, Hopkins said.

"I got railroaded," he said. "A woman says anything happened to them in New York State, and they believe her and not the man. It's not fair."

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