Last month The Mirror (and several other outlets) ran a ‘story’ about a Brazilian influencer and model called Arthur O Urso who ‘came out as spornsexual’ [sic] ‘after spending the last few months focussing on body exercises’. It ‘sports’ ‘the headline: Spornsexual man with eight wives says his partners all demand he… Read More »Meet the Typosexual: How the Spornosexual Lost a Vowel
Allow me to add two hours to your life. Above are the only two good bits from Thor: Love & Thunder. You’re welcome. Chris Hemsworth seems to have been styled, airbrushed, lit – and restrained in gold chains – by Pierre et Gilles. But somehow even gayer. In fact, he’s been… Read More »Thor Blimey
Is Pride season over yet? Does it in fact ever end nowadays? Like the ever extending and complicating rainbow flags and acronyms it is, by definition, never finished. There is always more ‘work’ to be done. Some hitherto undiscovered shame to be extirpated. Some ‘awareness’ to be ‘raised’. Some invisibility… Read More »(Taken in for) Questioning
Mark Simpson’s love-affair with American engineering – & engineered Americans My first trip to the US, as a spotty provincial English teenager, was teeth-chatteringly exciting. Not least because it was also my first experience of space travel. My mum and dad took me and my younger brother on one those… Read More »Cool New World
Twenty years ago, my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. Both the piece and he went virulently viral, starting an outbreak of global metrosexmania that lasted years. Thousands of media outlets ran items on him. Several books were written… Read More »Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On