Can we all agree Paul is a creep?
No, I don't.
That's why life was so much simpler before SM.
I remember, aged about 13, finding a paperback book of my father's, tucked away in a cupboard in his bedroom. I was intrigued as some of the pages had their corners folder over. I investigated, and it was a beautifully descriptive prose of a single male Royal Navy officer having illicit liaisons with women from the ports he was visiting. It was graphic but with a 1950s naivety and matching narrative. In retrospect, it was quite lovely. Passion bourne from being celibate for many months at sea.
My father was the kindest, gentlest man I had the privilege of knowing. If he had Tiktok, he might have been tempted to follow some ladies if he wanted to disappear into some fantasy land. My Mum would have been about 50-52 at the time. She had probably had menopause issues and might have gone off sex, and he just wanted a little release and never dreamt it was cheating. Today men have so many ways of escaping from their lives, and we should accept we are in a different era.
Fantasising about others isn't cheating in my book; in fact, it might be a way of coping with a difficult spell and is preferable to flirting with women/men in real life and possibly having a full-blown affair. I bet there aren't many of us who sometimes, in our relationships, haven't let our minds wander a little.
Based on my experience, imagine if we were in the 1970s and the tabloids published that Paul was reading novels with a sexual twist. What would be the narrative, then?
That TikTok account doesn't define him.