Warning: This story contains graphic details.

A man on trial for sexual assault testified Monday his accuser was the one who initiated their “hookup” and the sex that followed, after the two met at a downtown Toronto bar on May 12, 2016.

But under cross-examination, Patrick Walsh denied he was characterizing her as the aggressor, saying everything about their encounter was “mutual.”

Before Walsh took the stand Monday, Superior Court Justice Kelly Byrne told the jury she was dismissing a second count against him of publishing an intimate image without consent.

The charge related to the young woman’s evidence that Walsh streamed FaceTime video of her naked and vomiting in his bathroom after forcing her to have intercourse.

“What that means for all of you is that you will not be asked to deliberate or reach a verdict on that count,” Byrne told jurors. “The evidence, however, about the FaceTiming calls still forms part of the evidence for your consideration on the remaining count (of sexual assault),” to which Walsh has pleaded not guilty.

Crown attorney Brigid McCallum closed her case last week after the university student spent two days on the stand describing her recollection of what happened in Walsh’s mother’s Richmond St. W. condo.

The accused, a 22-year-old native of Dundas, Ont., testified Monday he had just returned to Canada and was hanging out and drinking with his friends after finishing his first year at a Detroit university on a lacrosse scholarship.

They went to Grace O’Malley’s pub on Duncan St. when he ran into a then 19-year-old woman, who cannot be identified. They had met on one previous occasion.

Walsh testified that after they swapped cellphones to exchange social media accounts, she sent a text from his phone to her own that said: “you’re coming over tonight” — a text he said he deleted later.

After they went outside, Walsh said he asked if she wanted to go back to his mother’s nearby condo and have a drink.

Walsh testified he told her he was on a hiatus from his girlfriend — they were going through a “rough patch” — and asked if she had a boyfriend. “She said ‘no,’ then she said ‘OK but, if you’re down, I’m down.’ At that point we just kind of embraced each other and were kissing.”

Both “buzzed” from booze, they held hands as they walked to the condo, he said.

“What did you understand the comment, if you’re down, I’m down,” defence lawyer Zachary Kerbel asked his client.

“I just thought that she’d want to hook up,” Walsh replied.

“What do you mean by you thought you’re going to hook up?” his lawyer asked.

“I didn’t have any intentions. We had kissed so … if one thing led to another then, then that was OK.”

Once at the condo, Walsh said the two started kissing again as they made their way into the bedroom, where she used one hand to push his six foot three-frame onto the bed, a move he described as “movie like.” The now 22-year-old woman is five foot three.

Things went quickly from there, he told the jury. The woman stripped off her clothes — he removed his shirt and pants and she helped with his underwear — and she straddled him, and gave him oral sex, he said. The woman testified he pushed her head down to his groin area, against her will but she said nothing at the time.

“Did you push her head?” asked Kerbel.

“No,” replied Walsh, poker-faced and monotone throughout his testimony.

After oral sex, Walsh said she wrapped her legs around him and he asked her if he should get a condom. She didn’t respond, he said. Shortly after, she got up to use bathroom, where Walsh heard her throwing up.

The woman said that happened after he forced her to have intercourse, which she objected to several times. Walsh said no penetration happened.

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Nor, Walsh said, did he livestream images of the young woman naked and throwing up on the iPhone FaceTime app to his laughing friends, as she alleges.

Rather, Walsh said he called two friends in the United States to ask them what to do about her “puking” in the washroom.

The trial continues Tuesday.