I’ve just happened across a new football blog ‘The Spoiler’ that has a self-described ‘Sporno’ section: ‘Where sport meets porn’. They have some rather good pics (such as this one of Becks mounting an opponent who seems much more pleased than he is surprised). Pages and pages of them. And… Read More »Accidental Sporno Deliberately Collected
by Mark Simpson (The London Times, 28 July, 2008) Next week the V&A opens an exhibition called Fashion v Sport, profiling the relationship between the sports and fashion industries – a relationship that seems to be flourishing despite the habit of many of today’s sportsmen and women of wearing less… Read More »From Sportsmen to Sporno Stars
The New Zealand and South African Rugby teams made the news this week with their nude rugby match on St Kilda beach. (UPDATE: In fact, the NY Daily News story cited here appears to have got a little over excited: the players were NOT from the All Blacks and the Boks but… Read More »Naked Rugger Buggers Buggering About
This month’s Out magazine includes a feature by yours truly on my visit to Montreal in April to see the biggest, baddest, ballsiest Ultimate Fighting Championship event ever. UFC, for those who aren’t in the know, or unaccountably uninterested in seeing fit, near-naked men grappling and grunting, is the cage-fighting… Read More »Ultimate Pillowbiting – How Gay is MMA?
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)