In January this year, I began a process of asking hundreds of men about the things they say to other men when they talk about women. I was creating a verbatim play called Locker Room Talk, where the real words of men would be spoken aloud by an all-female cast.

All the men that I interviewed knew that they were being recorded and that their words could be used as part of the play. However, I promised them anonymity. With a great sense of camaraderie, I was welcomed into work and social spaces; from office blocks to tower blocks, from the doctors’ surgery to the dance floor.

I wanted to know if the misogynist language exposed on Donald Trump’s campaign trail reflected that of modern men. What I discovered is that some modern men can make Donald Trump look like a perfect gent.

My catalyst was what the world dubbed #pussygate: the moment when Trump was caught on a live mic with daytime chat show host Billy Bush, bragging about sexual assaults that he’d committed. That detail is sometimes left out - that he was bragging about committing sexual assault - but make no mistake, that’s what he was doing.