28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Three things in life are certain – death, taxes and your OnlyFans nudes being leaked': how women's sexuality is hijacked online
Jess Davies writes about her own experience of having intimate photos shared without her consent in her new book No One Wants To See Your D*ck, which is an urgent update on toxic, misogynistic behaviour online
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Hours before I sit down to read Jess Davies' book No One Wants To See Your D*ck: A Handbook for Survival in the Digital World, I spot a video on Instagram that initially appears to be (but isn't) satire. In it, a young podcaster explains at length why he doesn't want his girlfriend to 'have' to work, arguing his career is more important than hers.
Reading the Welsh activist Davies' debut, I'm reminded that my first instinct – to file the video under 'yet another misogynistic idiot online' – is a way of surviving as a woman on social media. I know it's the tip of a horrifying iceberg, but there's little I can do about it.
