A funny thing happened to Mark Simpson on the way to the ‘Being a Man’ forum I almost fell off the platform when I saw this bodybuilding supplements poster busting out all over the London Underground recently – around the same time as all that indignant hullabaloo surrounding The Sun‘s infamous now-you-don’t-see-them-any-more-now-you-do-again lady… Read More »Man-Knockers on the London Underground
Mark Simpson on how Lynx grew up. And kissed a boy. “Swing it around like you’re in a TV commercial.” I like this spunky new hair gel ‘Now can be amazing’ ad from Lynx, currently airing in Australia. Especially since it’s the perfect antidote to the ball-shrivelling dreary paranoia of… Read More »‘Swing it Around Like You’re in a TV Commercial’
‘IVORY SOAP…99.44% PURE’ All I can say is that 0.66% is certainly working very hard indeed. This 1919 ad shows soapy soldiers bathing on the deck of a troopship and being sprayed by a kindly – and generously endowed – sailor: ’25 under the hose at one time.’ The… Read More »The Well-Scrubbed Purity of the Past
This bombastic ad for Paco Rabanne’s new fragrance for men ‘Invictus’, released this Summer, stars Aussie rugger bugger Nick Youngquest, his muscles, his tatts, his beard, and most of all his obliques. (They’re the diagonal lines above those track pants with the really worn waist elastic – pointing to his,… Read More »Invictus – Smells Like Team Sporno
As an avid voyeur of the media’s marketing of the male body I meant to write about this new Diet Coke advert ‘Gardener’ when it first strutted its stuff a month or so back, but it completely slipped my mind – like a chilled, beading soft drink can in a… Read More »Diet Cock: Coca Cola’s Porno Promo