British writer and journalist.
Everything you wanted to know about 2nd gen metrosexuality & ‘androgyny on androgens’ but were afraid to ask Originally published in 2018 (in Spanish) in the Catalan anthropological periodical Quaderns (No. 34, 2018). Expanded from a feature written for GQ Style (‘Attack of the Spornosexuals’), and a lecture I gave at Men in… Read More »Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution
Mark Simpson on those ‘Massive Cock’ docs A long, long time ago, I appeared on a documentary called The World’s Biggest Penis. Although this will surprise some of my critics, I was not the subject of the doc. Nor was I demonstrating. I was merely a talking, er, head. Remember when there was such… Read More »The World’s Biggest Fetish
Last week, on Christmas Day, for old times’ sake – which there seems to be rather a lot of in my middle age – I watched on BBC2 a recently rediscovered early episode of Morecambe & Wise from 1970, which had previously been thought ‘lost‘. British comedy duo Eric Morecambe… Read More »Newlyweds, Oldlyweds, & the Lost ‘Innocence’ of Morecambe & Wise
China’s ruling Communist Party has reportedly finally had enough of impossible male prettiness, and is cracking down on the promotion of metrosexuality. ‘Sissy’ boybands, ‘vulgar’ social media influencers, reality TV and ‘abnormal esthetics’ have been denounced by China’s mighty broadcast regulator, The National Radio and Television Administration. They have, according… Read More »China’s Metrosexual Crackdown
Football may not be coming home, after England’s Euros finals defeat earlier this year. But football’s greatest star, and perhaps the world’s most famous face and body, is going to be ‘back where I belong’. In England. According to his recent Insta post (336m followers). The striking Portuguese striker Cristiano… Read More »Ronaldo’s Coming Home