Is new wave of lad culture damaging young men's attitudes to women? Comic Dapper Laughs asks girls 'Are you moist?' in the street He also joked about a girl 'gagging for a rape' during one of his shows Pick-up artist Julien Blanc teaches how lowering a girl's self-esteem gets sex Student Vicky Chandler says she has men shouting 'moist' at her in street She campaigned for Dapper Laughs to be banned from her Student Union Dapper Laughs has had a bad seven days. At the beginning of October, the 'comedian' - real name Daniel O'Reilly - was on cloud nine, with his own ITVBe show 'Dapper Laughs: On The Pull' and a UK tour on the horizon. But after a huge backlash against his sexist pranks, which include 'Just show her your penis. If she cries, she's just playing hard to get,' ITV has this week announced that they will no longer commission his programme. Pick-up artist Julien Blanc (left) teaches how lowering a girl's self-esteem gets sex and Comic Dapper Laughs asks girls 'Are you moist?' in the street. The men are part of a new wave of ladism among young men At the same time 'pick-up artist' Julien Blanc, who teaches men how to lower a woman's self-esteem in order to have sex with them, has also been in the headlines. The American 'dating coach' has been the subject of a petition in the UK calling on the Home Office to reject his visa, therefore preventing him bringing his course to Britain. It follows a decision by Australia to cancel his visa halfway through his tour in their country last week. Dapper Laughs and Julien Blanc are just two of a large number of men cashing in on the new wave of laddism. These attitudes to women in both comedy and dating are nothing new - Jim Davidson's comedy routine often contained jokes widely considered as sexist and The Game is a well-known dating technique that teaches men to lower a woman's self-esteem in order to sleep with her. But new wave laddism pioneers such as Dapper Laughs and Julien Blanc have, in many ways, taken it to another level. Dapper Laughs first became famous on the internet, where his six-second Vine videos attracted more than half a million followers Dapper Laughs first became famous on the internet, where his six-second Vine videos attracted more than half a million followers. In the early days, Daniel mainly made funny videos about general life, but gradually tailored the videos towards women - picking up women, catcalling women in the street and making jokes about how to talk to women. His catchphrase 'proper moist' refers to the way a woman becomes when she is around him. In one of his tweets, he said: 'Remember, it's only sexual harassment if she's more attractive than you.' While another one of his jokes claims: 'If she cries, she's just playing hard to get.' Dapper Laughs (left) often catcalls women in the street for his Vine videos (right) One of his jokes is 'If she cries, she's just playing hard to get.' The success of his Vine and Twitter pages led ITVBe to commission a six-part series where Daniel teaches men to pick up girls, using his own techniques. In disgust at the programme, a British man called Tom Zephyr launched a petition on Change.Org criticising ITV for broadcasting the show in the first place. He said: 'O'Reilly's attitudes towards women, and ITV's backing in particular, are far from harmless. 'Because ITV has granted O'Reilly the massive exposure and credibility of its platform, everyday sexism is being normalised for both young men and women.' And the issue is becoming a serious talking point. It was debated last night on Newsnight, with Guardian columnist Sali Hughes and former editor of Loaded magazine James Brown united in agreement over their disgust at the behaviour seen in On The Pull. Sali said on the programme: 'They're laughing at women - they're not laughing with them. The butt of the joke is women. And then when you come out of the TV programme, you are getting real men talking to real women who have done nothing to elicit that attention or approach from those men. 'You're getting those men saying, "you need a raping, you need a beating" and really, really shocking abuse.' Earlier this week, a video surfaced of Daniel making jokes about rape at one of his tour gigs. Daniel was responding to one of his critics, who had described his programme as a 'rapists' almanac'. The success of his Vine and Twitter pages led ITVBe to commission a six-part series where Daniel teaches men to pick up girls, using his own techniques He said: 'If it was a guide to rape, I would have done one five-minute episode, come on and go "Oi Oi, I'm Dapper Laughs, go down the shops, get some rope, a bit of duct tape, rape the b****, well done, see you later.' Later in the show he singled out a woman in the audience and told the crowd that she was 'gagging for a rape.' It led to ITVBe announcing yesterday that they had decided not to commission a second series of On The Pull. It was this tour that Cardiff University student Vicky Chandler successfully petitioned to have Dapper Laughs banned from her university student union. It was this tour that Cardiff University student Vicky Chandler successfully petitioned to have Dapper Laughs banned from her university student union Vicky has had first-hand experience of the effect of shows like Dapper Laughs - which young men are using as a template for their own interactions with women. Her experience rubbishes the defence of his many supporters that the jokes and videos are just harmless fun and should not be taken seriously. Vicky, 21, said: 'To some, what he does can come across as charismatic because he has that Jack The Lad character about him. But the problem is when other boys start doing it - they think, "If he does it, it must be socially acceptable." 'I've lost count of the amount of times I've had boys shout at me "Are you proper moist." 'I'm in my third year now and this year more than ever I've seen the rise in lad culture from young boys coming into university. 'A lot of the men that I'm friends with are not like that at all, it's a lot of the younger boys coming in who have this really warped idea of how to behave. 'At my age in general, if you're on a dance-floor in a nightclub, a guy will come up behind you and start grinding against you. If you say no, they say - "But you were dancing like that." 'Pretty much every time I go out someone will try and touch me when I'm dancing.' 'I think it's because they have people like him to look up to. 'Things like that and The Lad Bible who do things like post pictures of women's boobs - they're so instant and so share-able because they are on a social media platform. Their followers think that because they see what Dapper Laughs writes every day that he is their mate 'For example, all of the abuse that I have been getting from starting the petition, people direct it to Dapper Laughs - they say things like 'Have you seen what this boring b**** has been doing.' The damaging effect of laddism on men's attitudes towards women is even stronger when it includes the influence of men like pick-up artist Julien Blanc, who aren't even using sexism as a comedy prop. Julien's dating seminars advise men on how to: 'Make Girls BEG To Sleep With You After SHORT-CIRCUITING their Emotional And Logical Mind Into A Million Reasons Why They Should.' It advises on how specifically a man can to lower a woman's self-esteem so that she will sleep with them. Last week, MailOnline reported that during a recent seminar, Julien allegedly said of women in Japan: 'At least in Tokyo, if you're a white male, you can do what you want. 'I'm just romping through the streets, just grabbing girls heads, just like, "head, on d***," "head, on d***," yelling "Pikachu!" with a Pikachu shirt.' He also uses a technique that he calls 'The choke opener' and there are several pictures of him on the internet with his hands around girls' necks. Julien reportedly said his choking pick-up technique was an example of 'pushing it a bit further', although he recommended that attendees should not perform the move 'at home'. 'Most people wouldn't do that,' he said. Now by me doing it and getting away with it, BANG, now I stand out. Julien said people can get away with things like this if they do it in the spirit of 'self-amusement' and fun. 'As long as it's genuine fun, you can choke the girl.' Julien also uses a technique that he calls 'The 'choke opener' and there are several pictures of him on the internet with his hands around girls' necks. A petition has now been launched here in the UK calling on the government to refuse Julien a visa to come and preach his techniques at a seminar in London later this month. Roz Hardie, the Chief Executive Officer at Object - a charity that challenges the sexual objectification of women said there are some very serious concerns about Julien being allowed to come and teach his advice to men here in the Britain. She said: 'In Australia, there was a decision to made that this person was producing a how-to guide in terms of how-to abuse women, we would not expect absolute freedom of speech for a person who was producing a how-to guide to blow up railways stations, why is this any different to that? 'We know that Julien's advert is advertising a (pick-up seminar) on the 21 November. In Britain, over two women a week die as a result of domestic abuse and that list includes strangulation of women. 'A reality of women and girls when it comes to domestic abuse is it's younger women who are at the highest risk 'Julien Blanc is teaching men show to date and it's really important that men should learn that relationships should be healthy and consensual. 'We aren't condemning men for going out to chat someone up, there is a world apart from chatting people up and what he is advising. 'But what is really heartening about the attitude to Julien and the Dapper Laughs situation is the groundswell of men who are coming out now and saying - this is not us and we don't want this to be us. That is really welcome. What's terrible is the extent of the problem, but what is positive is how many people have come together to say absolutely not and also the men being keen to speak out against this and who wanted to actively do something about this. That is the positive that has come out all of this.