Mark Simpson visits the UK’s biggest fitness expo and tries not to stare too hard. Even though staring is encouraged. (Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph 4 August, 2016) “Would you like me to take my top off?” is the shy and retiring usual response when you ask a chap… Read More »Inside Spornosexual Pride: The BodyPower Exhibition
Mark Simpson on the shameless pumped progeny of David Beckham & Take That Good things come in pairs. Buttocks, breasts, balls, pecs, Twix – and the Harrison twins. Owen and Lewis Harrison, originally from England’s beautiful Lake District, an hour’ or so’s drive north of Manchester, are quite the attraction themselves –… Read More »Stereo Sporno – The Harrison Twins
While prepping for my Barcelona lecture, ‘From Metrosexual to Spornosexual – a Permanent, Spectacular Masculine Revolution’, this video serendipitously popped up into MetroDaddy’s timeline on Twitter. It’s an exploration of the meaning of being called ‘metrosexual’ by professional bodybuilder and popular online fitness guru Steve Cook, who has his own YouTube channel… Read More »Spornosexual Steve Cook on the Meaning of Metrosexual