Mark Simpson on how Sean Connery’s ‘overgrown stuntman’ sired a generation of young men licenced to thrill So, Mr Bond finally did what Mr Goldfinger expected him to do. Even if it took 56 years. This October, two months after his 90th birthday, Sir Thomas Sean Connery, the first, most… Read More »Goodbye, Mr Bond – Hello Buff New World
The young men of the Egyptian Police Academy put on a pec-tacular display this week in Cairo, surrounded by — and perched on — the butch toys that come with the job. It’s easy to snigger, but it’s definitely not easy to stay rigidly most muscular on those moving tanks,… Read More »Egypt’s Spornosexual Pride Parade (Police Academy Section)
2nd gen metrosexuals are coming & this time it’s hardcore by Mark Simpson What is it about male hipsters and their strange, pallid, highly ambivalent fascination with bodies beefier and sexier than their own? Which means, of course, pretty much everyone? You may remember last year that last year the… Read More »Meat the Spornosexual
By Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday 31 March 2002) Guys! Do you worry that your body isn’t sufficiently lean and muscular? Do you frequently compare your muscles with other men’s? If you see a man who is clearly more muscular than you, do you think about it and feel envious… Read More »Muscle: Hollywood’s Biggest Special Effect
The teenage Tom of Finland’s gay fantasies from the 1940s of sensually muscular men have come to define a mainstream view of masculinity, says Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in The London Times, Nov 2008 ) The first time I saw a Tom of Finland drawing was in a well-thumbed, seventh-hand… Read More »From Finland With Lust – How Tom Re-Designed the Male Body For Pleasure