WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT – Lewis plunged from the first-storey balcony in Magaluf, Majorca, but was extremely fortunate to escape with a fractured arm and a few scrapes
A British teenager plunged from a hotel balcony — but his initial thought was described as “unsavoury”.
After Lewis, 19, fell into the bush, he didn’t worry about how badly hurt he was, or wonder if his travel insurance would cover any medical costs. Instead, his first concern was: “I hope no one does my coke if I have to go to hospital.”
Fortunately, the teen escaped with a fractured arm and a few scrapes but he was more worried about the cocaine he had laid out in lines on a mirror in the hotel room. He had lured some women into his room with the promise of the class A drugs, but he never saw the women — or the cocaine — again.
He was on a lads holiday in Magaluf, Majorca, activities of which are now said to have been influenced by the workings of the “Manosphere”; an online community of influencers and “activists” promoting the “rights” of men, and espousing appalling, deeply misogynistic views about women. This is particularly topical now following Louis Theroux’s recent documentary on the behaviour, which featured the likes of Harrison Sullivan, known to his 331,000 Instagram followers as “HSTikkyTokky”.
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In the documentary, Sullivan is seen frolicking in Marbella, Spain, another destination popular with “lads on tour”. The programme showed how the likes of Mr Sullivan have become “role models” within the space, prompting debased copycat behaviour in their followers — most often younger, impressionable men.
And Lewis, who fell in Magaluf, has since been away with the most of the same group of male companions to the raucous party resort of Ayia Napa in Cyprus. However, one of his mates, Adam, opted out after the Magaluf trip. Recalling the trip to Majorca, Adam told the Daily Mail: “It was the girls stuff… It was post A-Levels and exams, and it was like everyone lost their minds and did things that were so way past OK.”
But Lewis has reportedly adopting the sick, twisted logic typical of many Manosphere influencers. He told the outlet: “Let’s face it, the birds who go on these holidays are there for the same reason, aren’t they? Loads of the girls I know go harder than the boys and love all the banter that happens including the sh*gging and the games that go with it… Don’t like it? Go on holiday to Italy and look at some churches with your mum and dad, or something.”
Mr Theroux’s documentary, which aired on Netflix, ends with the journalist confronting Sullivan. The 24-year-old man was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence at Staines Magistrates’ Court in November last year after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and driving without insurance. He has also been disqualified from driving for two years.
