As an avid voyeur of the media’s marketing of the male body I meant to write about this new Diet Coke advert ‘Gardener’ when it first strutted its stuff a month or so back, but it completely slipped my mind – like a chilled, beading soft drink can in a… Read More »Diet Cock: Coca Cola’s Porno Promo
If you’re a member of Amazon Prime in the US, UK, France or Germany and own a Kindle you can e-borrow Metrosexy, Saint Morrissey, Sex Terror and Male Impersonators for nowt. (Though Amazon promises to bung me a couple of dollars for each lend.)
Mark Simpson interviewed by Clement Ghys in France’s Liberation newspaper about the evolution of his metrosexual offspring – and Justin Timberlake’s ass. Unedited English email Q&A, April 2012 CG: In 1994, you coined the term “Metrosexual”. Looking back, how would you say the concept has evolved? In what way do… Read More »‘Mâle Au Corps’: Mark Simpson talks to ‘Liberation’
Burger King have come a long way from their ‘manthem’ anti-metro backlash days of the mid Noughties in which they literally sang the praises of fatty food. Now their ads star the ultimate metrosexual smoothie, David Beckham, who is given the kind of soft-focus, mouth-watering treatment in this ad that used to… Read More »Metrosexual Smoothie