Even more snogging rugby players, this time in an American online ad for a noise-cancelling bluetooth headset. I don’t wish to appear ungrateful, but it’s clear that American ad men, even groovy online ones, really don’t get rugby. Or 21st Century sexuality. As the lovely lads of Sandbach have shown… Read More »Snogging Rugby Players (Again)
The phenomenon of manlove for ladies, which I wrote about recently, citing The Mighty Boosh snog, seems to be catching: ‘Former Buffy the Vampire star James Marsters helped fulfil one of his girlfriend’s fantasies on the set of sci-fi series Torchwood – when he locked lips with John Barrowman. The… Read More »Manlove for Ladies on Torchwood
Mark Simpson on the crossover of female man-on-man fantasy – or ‘slash’ – into the mainstream (‘The London Times, December 29, 2007) When Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of the hit BBC comedy The Mighty Boosh snogged on air the other week, it may have looked as if they were pandering,… Read More »Manlove For Ladies