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Buy-Curious: Have Men’s Mags Come Out To Themselves Yet?

by Mark Simpson
November 3, 2009December 23, 2020

by Mark Simpson This month the metrosexual is fifteen. Back in November 1994 I wrote a piece for The Independent called ‘Here come the mirror men’ prompted by a visit to an exhibition in London organised by men’s glossy GQ. In it I claimed to have seen the future of masculinity… Read More »Buy-Curious: Have Men’s Mags Come Out To Themselves Yet?

Shock News: Mens Glossies Promote Metrosexuality

by Mark Simpson
March 17, 2008December 23, 2020

According to yesterday’s The Sunday Times, the so-called ‘laddish’ culture promoted by men’s magazines has spawned a new medical condition: ‘athletica nervosa’, or an obsession with exercise: New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may be… Read More »Shock News: Mens Glossies Promote Metrosexuality