That was the salacious front-page block-capitals headline the (now defunct) heavily fragranced men’s magazine Details gave my exclusive ‘undercover’ story for them in May 2006. I was reporting on the globally covered scandal involving US soldiers from the elite 81st Airborne being courts-martialed for appearing in gay porn – from inside,… Read More »‘INSIDE THE SORDID PORN SCANDAL THAT’S ROCKING THE ARMY’
Look around. Everywhere you turn, the male form is being idealized, commodified, fetishized. On TV screens (the ripped vampires of True Blood), in Hollywood (Ryan Gosling’s toned torso lifting Crazy, Stupid, Love to the top of the box office), and on billboards (towering images of chiseled men in briefs), laptops,… Read More »Details Magazine Reviews ‘Male Impersonators’ and ‘Metrosexy’
The current (May) issue of the proudly metrosexual Details magazine includes an ‘undercover’ exclusive by yours truly on the globally-reported gay porn scandal involving paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne, ‘America’s Honor Guard’. Billed charmingly at the top of the front cover as: ‘INSIDE THE SORDID PORN SCANDAL THAT’S ROCKING… Read More »Mark Simpson’s Inside Story on the US Army’s Gay Porn Scandal