Men are proving their masculinity by ... staring at nothing for hours on end. Could I hack it?

‘ Social media is full of posts by men bragging about how they have “rawdogged” international flights.’ Photograph: Maurice Savage/Alamy

I wonder if Heston Blumenthal gets free sandwiches at Heston service station? Didn’t he have a partnership with Waitrose? Or was it M&S? There’s an M&S at Reading. Don’t they do this in Gavin and Stacey – rate the services down the M4? Leigh Delamere … there’s a character called Lee Delamere in that thing I’m watching, Your Honor with Bryan Cranston. Love Bryan. Think I love Kiefer more. They should make more 24. When does Jack Bauer go to the toilet? Now I need the toilet. At least a wee will relieve the boredom …

If you’re confused by the above ramblings, that would be understandable. I’m investigating the TikTok trend of “rawdogging”, which, I must emphasise, isn’t as vulgar as it sounds. Once crude slang for sex without a condom, the term is now being used as a way to describe doing practically anything without entertainment or assistance. And it’s become the latest way for men to prove their masculinity.