The highly-anticipated phone sex tape between murder suspect Jodi Arias and her alleged victim Travis Alexander was played in court Tuesday, and the graphic, XXX-rated content shocked everyone in the room.

Travis’ family had been pre-warned by Judge Sherry Stephens not to react or pull faces as the explicit conversation between Alexander and his killer rang out around the Maricopa County Courtroom — so they sat silently trying to hide the obvious disgust, while Arias repeatedly hid her head in her hands in shame.

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Recorded on May 10, 2008 by Arias, allegedly at Alexander’s request, the lengthy tape marked the first time that the jury had heard Travis’ deep, throaty voice as the conversation flipped between fantasies of graphic sexual acts, small talk criticizing friends, church trips, music, movies, and full circle back to sex again.

Although they were no longer officially a couple at the time it was recorded, on the tape Travis refers to Jodi as “his girlfriend” and expresses how he was going “to beat down” an acquaintance  who he thought had hit on her.  Arias’ appears eager to turn the conversation back to sex though, telling Alexander, “I love it when you grab my butt.”

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The late devout Mormon quickly picks up on the sexually-charged change of direction  the conversation is going in, replying, “Your butt has gotten more attention than any woman’s on the face of the world… If they had an ‘ass of the planet’ award it would win.”

Things begin to heat up even further between the on-again-off-again couple, with Travis bragging about their two and three hour sex sessions, and Jodi complimenting his stamina and comparing their raunchy hook-ups to “an all-you-can-eat salad bar.”

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“I like that you play whatever role you need to play,” Alexander tells Arias, before revealing that he wants to tie her to a tree and commit intrusive sexual acts on her.

Despite her suspicions at the time that he was seeing other women, when Travis compliments Jodi she purrs like a kitten in response.

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“You are very photogenic, you are very pretty. You are so attractive. I have never seen you look bad in my life,” he flatters her at one point.

As the XXX-rated recording continues to even greater extremes, Travis calls Jodi “dirty” and “the prototype of sluttiness” and tells her she looks like a porn star.

“We’re going to get all these great pictures and a quality camera, and it will be legitimate porn,” he says.

The graphic conversation occurred less than a month before Jodi killed Travis by shooting him in the face, stabbing him 27 times and slitting his throat, which she claims was in self defense.  The sexually charged content of the call was a sharp contrast to the vow of chastity that strict Mormons are asked to adhere too — and Arias’ defense team is sure to hope it will help cement in the jury’s minds the image of Alexander as a sexual deviant, predator and forceful instigator of kinky acts.

After the recording ended, Jodi returned to the stand  and immediately claimed that the passionate orgasm noises she made on the phone were faked.

She then went on to testify that Alexander got increasingly sexually aggressive with her as time progressed.

“He would turn into Mr. Hyde,” she said, according to live tweets from Arizona Republic reporter Michael Kieffer from inside the courtroom.

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