A former army officer who sent degrading emails about his sexual exploits with women has escaped jail time.
Instead, the man who called himself the "Wolf of Woolloomooloo", was handed a 15-month suspended sentence and ordered to be of good behaviour.
Hastings Fredrickson was charged with three counts of using a carriage service to menace after he sent a series of emails in 2010 to colleagues who were part of an "adolescent boy's club" called the "Jedi council".
In one sent to four Australian Defence Force (ADF) email addresses, Fredrickson included images of a woman whom he had secretly filmed while having sex with her.
Describing her as "Melbourne Mistress/Melbourne Mole #5", he told the group he would no longer be able to email as regularly as his wife was about to give birth.
Two days later, Fredrickson sent an email titled "interesting menu" with photographs of a female senior officer whom he expressed interest in having sex with.
On Friday, Judge Peter Lakatos confirmed his 15-month term of imprisonment, but suspended it on the condition he be on good behaviour and hand over $2000 as security.
It comes after the court heard Fredrickson saw the sexual exploits as "having notches on the board" and likened anal sex to "stealing a woman's soul".
In a sentence hearing earlier this year, one of his victims described the toll his actions had taken on her.
"Women are not objects for you to play around with," she told the court.
"You don't own us, you don't take our bodies, you don't take our minds."
Fredrickson, Sydney's District Court heard, felt he was "acutely unattractive as a child" and, following a "severely disrupted" upbringing, had joined the army at 16.
He went to Afghanistan, but did not see combat there and left the ADF in 2009.
At the time of his offending, he was employed as a defence force contractor and was in the army reserves.
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