Recent research, widely publicised in the press with the usual barely-disguised glee that usually accompanies news that the efforts of other people has been in vain, suggested that therapy was no more effective than prescription drugs or ‘talking regularly to a friendly academic’. I doubt this is the case, though… Read More »Agony From the King of Cross-Reference – ‘Freud’s Footnotes’ by Darian Leader
In the Twenty First Century, probably around the time that men are restricted by law to the occupations of handyman and strippergrams, it will be agreed that the image which summed up the end of the Twentieth was not the fall of the Berlin Wall, nor the death of Diana,… Read More »Naked Men
A good sadist is hard to find. But I can reveal, a good masochist is even harder to find. Whenever I hear the words, ‘Use me, abuse me, do anything you want with me!’ my heart and my manhood always sinks. Not because I have any problem with the idea… Read More »A Hiding to Nothing: In Defence of Female Masochism
On the anniversary of the reform that (partially) decriminalised male homosexuality Mark Simpson argues Wolfenden would have been horrified by what has happened. To heteros (The Guardian, 30/7/07) Sometimes you can estimate the popularity of a thing by its illegality. Illegal drugs, for example are extremely popular, even with Cabinet… Read More »Straights Go Gay
In the Middle Ages, sodomy was thought to be caused not by hair whorls, but by drunkenness. As this clip shows, they were absolutely right. The post-match beery bonding of the lovely lads of Sandbach RUFC – which, be warned, includes very male nudity, heavy petting and male-on-male snogging –… Read More »Rugger Buggers & Swinging Dicks: Generation Xcess