Lennit Max is going to court to prove he is not well endowed

Lennit Max wants the world to know he is not well endowed. The Western Cape public works and transport standing committee chairman has enlisted a urologist and clinical sexologist to prove he did not have an affair with a former police clerk.

Belinda Petersen, 38, claims she was coerced into having sex with Max, 52, several times in 2007. She told Die Son newspaper that Max had a "massive" penis, which she likened to a bull's and which, she claims, caused her vaginal injuries.

Max, who is married with children, is claiming R700000 from Die Son for defamation. In one of two articles published in February 2010, Petersen went to great lengths to describe Max's penis.

But a report by clinical sexologist Marlene Wasserman, which has been filed in court, says Max "has a penis size and girth within normal measurement for an adult male. Thus it is questionable whether, in fact, this description fits that of [advocate] Max's penis at all."

He is not the first man to play down the size of his manhood.

In February 2009, Springbok rugby player Joost van der Westhuizen used the same defence when a sex tape surfaced of a man who looked like him sniffing the drug cat with a stripper.

He later admitted to being the man on the tape.

Max is now trying to get access to Petersen's medical file from a psychiatrist who reportedly treated her in 2006, the year before the alleged affair .

The application for the medical records will resume in the High Court in Cape Town next month.

According to court papers, Max met Petersen in 2007 after being elected to the legislature, in which his work involved dealing with complaints against the police. He agreed to help her in a police disciplinary inquiry. She had been charged with insubordination, dereliction of duty and absenteeism. However, he withdrew as her counsel before the end of the inquiry, which resulted in her dismissal.

Petersen claimed in court that during the inquiry she had told Max she could not pay his fees. He allegedly responded by saying she could pay him with sexual favours.

She said they had sex on at least three occasions, including in his house and at the Formula 1 Hotel in Parow, in August and September 2007.

Max denied this week that he had charged Petersen for his work, saying he represented her as part of his job.

He said in court papers that a week after he was appointed community safety MEC in May 2009, Petersen asked him for a job. He refused.

In January 2010, Die Son approached him about his alleged relationship with Petersen and reports were published the following month.

Later that year, Max laid a complaint of extortion against Petersen, claiming she approached him shortly before the reports were published and threatened to go public with their affair if he did not give her a job. Petersen was acquitted in the Cape Town Regional Court in December 2011.

In 2005, she laid a complaint of sexual harassment against three police officers. In the Labour Court, she claimed R236400 in compensation. Her complaint was dismissed after the judge found her evidence "unsatisfactory".