(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 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)
It seems that Cape May’s Speedo ban was relatively liberal compared to the beach blanket American Puritanism that preceded it. Until the 1930s you could get arrested on East Coast beaches just for showing your (male) nipples, no matter how baggy and unappetising your swimming trunks were. In Europe and on the… Read More »‘Trunks Should Be Worn High (& Adjusted Privately)’
A poster campaign advertising ‘Nude Men’ (“a long overdue exhibition on the diverse and changing depictions of naked men from 1800 to the present”) at the Leopold Museum in Vienna seems to have aroused the passions of the local phalliban. I thought the Austrians, like the nut-brown Germans I spied… Read More »Viennese Gag on Big Strudels
By Mark Simpson (The Guardian, 8 Aug 2007) The Phalliban, America ‘s killjoy campaign against the male body’s, er, maleness, strikes yet again. The 2008 Fire Department of New York Calendar of Heroes, the eleventh in series of snaps of buffed young firemen stripped to the waist which produces mass… Read More »Firemen’s Big Hose Sets NY Ablaze