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Spectator writer ‘paid for sex’ after becoming aroused by Cambridge academic in creepy article about his libido

The Spectator’s theatre critic has suggested that a blonde lecturer’s appearance made him so aroused he later had to pay for the services of a sex worker near a train station, in a misogynistic column about his libido.

The article was widely condemned as sexist immediately after publication, with journalists and commentators appalled – and confused – by the magazine’s decision to commission

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