My pal Graham recently drew my attention to the 1971 Australian film Wake in Fright, which is now available to watch in full, in a gloriously restored, uncensored HD on YouTube. I have no idea why he thought I would be interested in a film about homosociality, repressed homosexuality, and drunken depravity.… Read More »‘First Time in the Yabba, Mate?’
Madison Cawthorn’s Big Butch Exit North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn, a wheelchair user after a 2014 car accident, used his final address on the House floor last week to bemoan “soft metrosexuals” and give today’s men a stern spanking: “Our young men are taught that weakness is strength, that delicacy… Read More »Metrosexual Ex-Rep. Raps Metros
Daniel Craig’s new ad for Belvedere vodka is quite the gay divorcee statement. In the ad, directed by Thor‘s Taika Waititi, fifty-four-year-old Craig (happily married to Rachel Weisz since 2011), sheds his 007 white tuxedo strai(gh)tjacket, dons a tarty black tank top, silver chain necklace and leathers, shows us his delts,… Read More »Daniel Craig Escapes Bond’s Closet
Everything you wanted to know about 2nd gen metrosexuality & ‘androgyny on androgens’ but were afraid to ask Originally published in 2018 (in Spanish) in the Catalan anthropological periodical Quaderns (No. 34, 2018). Expanded from a feature written for GQ Style (‘Attack of the Spornosexuals’), and a lecture I gave at Men in… Read More »Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution
Mark Simpson on those ‘Massive Cock’ docs A long, long time ago, I appeared on a documentary called The World’s Biggest Penis. Although this will surprise some of my critics, I was not the subject of the doc. Nor was I demonstrating. I was merely a talking, er, head. Remember when there was such… Read More »The World’s Biggest Fetish