Mark Simpson probes Men’s Health – and finds it in painful denial Isn’t it about time Men’s Health, the world’s biggest-selling ‘men’s lifestyle’ magazine, came out to itself? I couldn’t get to sleep the other night and so resorted to flicking through last month’s UK issue: I find the pictures of semi-naked men’s perfect,… Read More »Mens Health Magazine – How Gay is It?
Forbes magazine has discovered make-up for men. Sales of items like concealer and skin tinter for men have increased in the US by a forehead-wrinkling 42% since 2001. It even seems possible that not all of those sales were to Forbes Lister (No.94) Donald Trump. This latest example of the… Read More »I Heart Metrosexuals
Following my previous post about straight male cockwatching, I should point out that some straight blokes are quite open about their size queenery – and in fact keen to shove it down your throat. Particularly drunk soldiers from Liverpool propping up the urinal. It seems to be part of the… Read More »The Size Queenery of Straight Men
A recent study using the new-fangled science of ‘eyetracking’ to improve the readability of online pages seems to have produced, erm, prominent proof of the eye-catching power of Sporno. For men. The eye-popping graph above appeared on the Annenberg Online Journalism Review’s dignified website with the sober, explanatory rubric: ‘Although… Read More »The ‘Fascinating’ Science of Sporno: Why Men Meat-Gaze
Yesterday’s Daily Mirror, Britain’s second most popular newspaper, and supposedly the ‘progressive’ tab compared to The Sun, carried a special treat for its readers. On the front page of this family paper was a picture of hunky England cricketers Jon Lewis and Jimmy Anderson moving in for a tasty tongue sandwich. The… Read More »England’s Cricketers in Snogging Shocker!