These days, we hear a lot about how the porn culture has a disastrous effect on boys, so it was about time that a clever piece like this pointed out that young women - likeable, intelligent, educated ones like Fleabag - also suffer from adopting the role of objects and playthings. Validated only by hook-ups, ruining their health and work in mindless sex and self-gratification, the Fleabags of today are, simply, lost. Overall, it is a revealing, sorrowful human comedy and, because of its popularity, a welcome shift in perception of modern women’s lives and feelings. Then there’s the success of another female comic writer, Sharon Horgan. Most recently, she has been the co‑writer and star of the equally fearless, frank TV comedy series Catastrophe, broadcast first last year on Channel 4. MALE GAY PORN COMIC CATASTROPHE SEX SCENE SERIES Horgan was born in Hackney, East London, where her Irish mother and New Zealander father ran a pub, before they moved to Ireland to run a turkey farm and sent her to convent school.
