Is that a racquet in your pants? Or are you just pleased to see a camera? Darkly handsome 29 year old tennis ace Rafael Nadal’s new ad for Tommy Hilfiger has more than a hint of a Tom Cruise Top Gun locker room scene about it. It also goes further than any other… Read More »Nadal’s Locker Room Service
Mark Simpson on Hollywood heartthrobs going ‘gayish’ The appearance of Channing Tatum and his Magic Mike XXL bun-chums Matt Bomer and Adam Rodriguez on a float at LA Pride shaking their money-makers for the highly appreciative LGBT crowd seems to have marked a watershed moment in the City of Signs.… Read More »Hollywood Gayze
(Originally appeared The Telegraph, July 1, 2015) “We didn’t want to show… the best parts… But it was very… very… hard… to resist.” The official trailer for Magic Mike XXL, the stuffed-crotch sequel to Channing Tatum’s 2012 male stripper movie Magic Mike, which opens this week, is packed with phallic single… Read More »Magic Mike XXL: What It Tells Us About Modern Manhood
“I call him lollipop” The sexualisation of the male body probes new, perfectly-rounded depths in this European ad promoting the ‘keyless entry’ feature on Ford cars. And possibly the use of Ford key fobs as sex toys. A remarkably well-crafted ad, it makes excellent use of the increasingly blatant modern phenomenon of… Read More »Keyless Entry & Male Versatility
I always used to wonder when watching gay porn in the 1990s how the deuce the models managed to get their pants over their chunky butch boots without removing them. Now of course every straight male from South London learns how to do this before they can legally drink in pubs –… Read More »Britain’s Got Tarty (& Chris Hemsworth’s Got Codpiece)