How women’s interest in man-on-man-lurve came out, got main-streamed – and topped the “real” gay thing. Without my permission. Having recently completed it, I was planning to post something about the sports-themed, age-verification-exempt, streaming gay porn everyone else has already written and raved about – reporting how women are apparently ‘feral’ for… Read More »Queer Eye of the Straight Gal
How the Levi’s “Laundrette” ad reflected the male gaze back on itself Four decades ago, on Boxing Day 1995, an ad for old-fashioned button-fly jeans first aired on UK TV – causing a national sensation, and sowing the seeds of metrosexuality and spornosexuality in the nation’s living rooms. And torturing… Read More »Forty Years of Prime-Time Male Tarting
The male desire to be desired shows no signs of tiring In 1994 the UK PM was a dull, no-frills 1960s branch bank manager, called John Major – a name that evoked a dull, no-frills 1960s British car, the Morris Minor. A new railway tunnel had just opened, recklessly connecting Britain to France.… Read More »The Metrosexual at Thirty
Last month, a profile of yours truly was published in the Spanish national El Pais, (words: Rafa de Miguel; photos: Manuel Vazquez). You can see my full ‘spread’ here. I think they’ve been very kind to an ageing Metrodaddy. I was asked to suggest a suitable location in Manchester. I… Read More »El Pais Profile of Mark Simpson
Madison Cawthorn’s Big Butch Exit North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn, a wheelchair user after a 2014 car accident, used his final address on the House floor last week to bemoan “soft metrosexuals” and give today’s men a stern spanking: “Our young men are taught that weakness is strength, that delicacy… Read More »Metrosexual Ex-Rep. Raps Metros