Old Spice are running an eye-wateringly spornographic wrestling TV ad for their Red Zone Hydrowash in the US. It features two buffed, cut, metro-wrestlers with really great hair and skin grappling on the mat. The ‘bottom’, held in a neck lock, comments, between fighting for air, on the ‘top’s ‘soft skin’ and how it’s… Read More »Old Spice New Sporno
Following my recent ‘Speedophobia’ feature for OUT about the American Phalliban, it seems the terrifying outline of male genitalia is still striking fear into the hearts of our colonial cousins – even in movies set in the tight-fit 1970s. According to Rod 2.0 the American Motion Picture Association of America… Read More »Black Speedos, Black Pride & the American ‘Phalliban’
Although I was quoted liberally in the Haaretz article on Sporno, there’s no harm in quoting myself even more liberally…. The discussion about whether spornographic images are straight or gay, active or passive, traditional or non-traditional seems to need a more, ahem, explicit explanation, or certainly a lengthier one than was possible in the article (I wounldn’t have… Read More »Sporno Can’t Be Straightened Out
Former NBA star John Amaechi’s coming out continues to blow the ‘gay’ lid on American professional sports (see ESPN extract left). Not by ‘naming names’, but simply outing from inside the locker room itself the homoerotic metrosexuality of hetero athletes. Perhaps this is the real ‘problem’ with homos in the… Read More »‘A Men’s Man’ – More Spornographic Revelations from John Amaechi
How Jean Genet invented the internet (Independent on Sunday, June 2003) `I had already wondered what would become of the meeting of a handsome young guard and a handsome young criminal,’ wrote Jean Genet in his 1943 debut prison novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, penned while he was himself… Read More »Toughs, Low-Life, Drag Queens – Genet Was The Daddy of Them All