What’s up fellas? Got my queen from the Philippines. She cooks, cleans, bakes, 10 years younger, no kids and the sweetest woman I’ve ever met. Took me renewing my passport and less than a month,” writes a user known as ‘Aj Love’ in the Passport Bros Facebook group.

Although no one should be judged for looking for love beyond borders, as this has been a reality since the dawn of time, it would be naïve not to analyse the phenomenon within the manosphere known as the ‘passport bros movement’, which has emerged across the West in countries such as the US, Germany, Netherlands and the UK.

Witnessing the growth of travel content online, specifically centred on the Global South, there comes a terrifying twist: the classification and commodification of women in these regions as “sexier”, “dependable”, “easier”, “dutiful”, “traditional” and “wifey” material.