Spectator article on author feeling horny after watching a lecture by a female academic at Cambridge University and then hiring a prostitute

Just think how many celebrities have been caught with prostitutes, or photographed going into brothels - Hugh Grant, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Fiennes, etc. And also how many have admitted to using prostitutes in their memoirs - Russell Brand, Frank Skinner, Colin Farrell. Even Paul McCartney claimed to have had an orgy with prostitutes when he was in the Beatles. Men really do have their brains in their penises. Frankly, when you think how easy it now is to look up escorts, I wonder how many of the men in our lives have secretly visited one. I have a nasty feeling it’s more than we suspect.

It’s perhaps forgivable in a young man. A boy in his teens or early twenties is callous and stupid and driven half insane by his hormones. But an older man should know better. An educated, middle-aged man like this guy should know that he’s funding an ugly and depressing trade. People make out that “it’s just a job,” but they wouldn’t want it for their daughters. That is no way for a human being to live their life.

This made my fucking blood boil. I am raging. It's not just a perv piece on this academic, it's trying to put every woman in her place. Her place, of course, is the bedroom.

Same, I love Hadley Freeman and Daniel Finkelstein and ignore Rod Liddle and India Knight.

I quite enjoy the Spectator, but it is a bit of a warning as you were saying re my enemy's enemy being my friend and that a whole swathe of people who know what a woman is want to fuck them/keep them in the kitchen.

This is a horrible piece of journalism.

I wouldn't call it a piece of journalism.
I also think it can be a mistake to tar a whole organisation with the same brush ... I don't read the spectator often, but there's probably other contributors who are still worth reading. I mean, I'm not going to give up on the Times with Janice Turner and many other good commentators and investigative journalists just because I can't stand Melanie Philips and disagree with some of its other opinion columnists.

This is unbelievably grim re the Spectator's Taki
https://x.com/helenlewis/status/1770394637494067514

Agree. I’ve been subscribing to the Spectator for a couple of years because it was one of the first to publish feminist critiques of gender ideology. This is a horrible piece of journalism.

this is one of the reasons why I wear hijab

ps I realise that men will still perv and also its their responsibility. but while men like this exist in society I choose to protect myself from their sordid gaze even though I think it's wrong that I have to. also would still wear it even if all men were angels because of the spiritual elements of wearing hijab .

Completely agree, Errol.

Some 'conservative publications' aren't 'gender critical' all. more like 'sex is real, gender roles tied to sex are a Good Thing'.

Well, at least he knows what a woman is @ all the dullards and shills that spout that Tory line.

Clearly chastity belts were invented for the wrong sex.

I definitely think it's socialised. The message that women are subservient to men exists, both covertly and overtly, across all layers of society and culture.

But yeah, the thought of shagging someone who wasn't enjoying it is stomach turning, and rapey.

Unfortunately, the rise of the gender critical article in conservative publications is likely as much driven by the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend as it is genuine internet in women's rights.

My takeaway from all this is that whether you're right or left leaning, if you're a woman you can't take your eye off the ball for at all.

This reflects very badly on the Spectator.

It has been getting a reputation for sensible, women-friendly articles on sex/gender and identity politics more generally.

But this? Object lesson in how you can trash a reputation that took years to build in one fell swoop.

Fraser Nelson (editor): WTF were you thinking to allow this?

Sadly you're very probably right.

The slang term "berk" is a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt", which in turn refers to the C-word. Rhyming slang.

Vile. I feel the editor of The Spectator must hate him though.

Mustn't

I doubt it unfortunately. He'll brazen it out a la Boris Johnson down at the Club and make jokes for the next few years about poops, careful what I say, must get those hairy lesbians after me again hahaha. And of course, most of the blokes in charge will be secretly back slapping him and 'asking for a friend' where the brothel is.

Well his "career" is over!!

Oh dear. What a shame. How sad!

Quite. He's sexually harassing both of them with an audience. It's the posh wanker's version of shouting shit at women in the street while other men walk past oblivious.

Those same men 'don't see misogyny'. Urg.

I suspect it is the sad made up sexual fantasy of an increasingly impotent sleaze, as I really dont think the people running the prostitutes of Cambridge would allow the to do freebies for men that had 'left their wallet at home". OTH, part of me does hope that he has given his bank account details to the Chinese triads.

Of course it's possible the whole thing is a product of his imagination, given he got the college name wrong and seems to have invented a 'railway terminus' in Cambridge ... afaik it has 2 non terminal stations.
Burk.

The woman academic in question has commented.
Good for her.
x.com/lea_ypi/status/1780875319735411088

Urgh.
Well, any woman he tries to have a liaison with in future who has read that is likely to have an extreme case of the ick.