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David Sherratt doesn’t want a girlfriend. He doesn’t ever want one. At 18 years old he has given up hope on womankind.

“It’s not for me,” the teenager said.

“I could be missing out on something but I could also be putting myself in danger.”

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Chemistry student David is part of an online community known as MGTOW – Men Going Their Own Way.

According to mgtow.com, it is about "ejecting silly preconceptions and cultural definitions of what a 'man' is".

It's about "looking to no-one else for social cues. Refusing to bow, serve and kneel for the opportunity to be treated like a disposable utility."

And, it's about "living according to his own best interests in a world which would rather he didn’t".

But what exactly does all that mean to David?

David, who is a virgin, is worried he could be accused of rape if he has casual sex.

“There is the risk of false accusation, especially given that I am a political target, given I’m a men’s rights advocate and people know who I am,” he said.

The “big lie” was that men “are sexually free and women are not,” he said.

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“We do not know how many false accusations there are,” he said.

“They could be the majority or they could be the minority.”

It all started off by posting on YouTube

David became known after he posted videos sounding his views on YouTube under the name Spinosaurus Kin.

Some have had a few hundred views. Others a few thousand.

“The reason you do not hear about men’s rights advocates like me being accused is because I am careful,” he said.

“There is a lot of risk. You do not know how many accusations are true.”

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He worries about a so-called ‘yes means yes’ law coming to the UK.

“There are women fighting for a yes means yes law,” he said.

“That would mean a man would have to prove consent. How exactly do you prove that happened?

“It is anti-human rights because you have a right to a fair trial. If that’s going to be taken away, human rights are going to be infringed upon.”

What else worries David?

Questions of consent are not David’s only fear.

Men could end up in abusive partnerships.

“A lot of men don’t know how to see the signs of abuse,” he said.

“They are told they cannot be abused.”

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Services to help men abused by women were few.

“There are hardly any services whatsoever and those they do manage to find are rudimentary and small charities with very little funding,” David said.

But, does he ever want a long-term relationship?

Marriage is not on the cards.

“I do not believe in a state sanctioned legal contract of relationship,” he said.

“When it comes to marriage, the system is so stacked against men it does not make sense.

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“You’re basically playing the financial equivalent of Russian roulette with three bullets because 50% of marriages end in divorce.”

No man came out of that well.

“Ask any man who is divorced whether he ended up better off after or whether he would have preferred to stay single,” David, who is a student at Cardiff University, said.

What do other people make of his views?

David gets mixed responses, but he’s not bothered.

“I like arguing with people anyway,” he said.

“I have a hundred different snarky responses to the silly things they say.

“They might say I hate women or I don’t respect women enough to marry them. I say prove it.”

So... does he just not like women?

He insists he DOESN’T hate women.

“There is this idea that if you disagree with feminism that you hate women,” he said.

“This is a common mistake.”

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He was brought up by his mother after his parents divorced at three. He loves her very much.

David believes be faces intolerance because of his views.

“If you speak out about them it’s ‘You hate us and you hate this whole demographic, you’re a bigot’ and it a race to shut people down,” David said.

“They have no argument about what I am saying but they are ready to paint me as a bigot.”

But does he think men get a raw deal all-round?

He reckons men are suffering because of unfair treatment at the hands of women.

“Men are supposed to pay for dates and bow down to women,” he said.

“Anything less than worship is hate.”

His old university flat mates hated his ideas so much he left.

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“The first time I was found out as a men’s rights advocate, my uni flatmates got me in a room and pressed me over my views and told me how offended they were,” he said.

“They said nothing except that my views hurt their feelings and I was wrong because of that.

“I was worried about being falsely accused of harassment or something else. This is very common.”

So now he stays away from people

Things were awkward until he moved.

“I ended up staying in my room, mostly not interacting with them and making sure I had the ability to prove where I was,” he said.

“Then I was moved and my new flatmates don’t care about my views.”

Not that he sees people much anyway.

“I’m not particularly social and do not go out often,” David said.

“Most of my friends are on line. I just speak to them in my room where it is safe and nothing can happen.”

(Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Who else is standing up for men's rights?

At the moment the men’s rights community is mostly on the web.

MGTOW has not really caught on in real life, although David is attending a men’s rights conference next year.

“The idea that feminism is a movement for equality and is going to help men is not really true,” he said.

“MGTOW is not a direct reaction to feminism, it has been a catalyst.

“A lot of men are deciding to give up and drop out. The only way to win is to not play.

“I completely understand and I am one of the people doing that.”