Once shamed, forever a slut: give up girls, you’re doomed to stay in the internet spotlight

Monica Lewinsky has played a strange and terrible situation well but still lives in the jaws of her experience. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Is slut-shaming having a retro-moment? Or is it rather that, for the slut-shamed, it never really goes away? Monica Lewinsky, the self-declared “patient zero of losing my reputation online”, has been in conversation with the Washington Post columnist, Taylor Lorenz, author of a new book about the internet, Extremely Online.

Elsewhere, the new Netflix docuseries Beckham, deals with reports of David Beckham’s alleged infidelity circa 2003. While the documentary doesn’t mention names, it led to the dragging back into the spotlight of Rebecca Loos, his former PA.