A Bunbury massage therapist who claimed to have lived in a nudist colony in France sexually assaulted multiple female clients, telling them the intimate touching would relieve tension, a Perth court has heard.

WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault that readers may find distressing.

Anthony Brain, 39, is accused of 36 sexual offences allegedly involving 18 women, mostly at the Nomadic Massuer clinic in central Bunbury.

The District Court heard Mr Brain touched their breasts and sexually penetrated them without consent.

Abuse 'for his own pleasure'

Prosecutor Alan Dungey told the court Mr Brain would tell his clients he needed to work on their breasts or groin area but what he did was "more intimate than what they had in mind."

Mr Brain had some women sign a consent fo

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