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Inside Spornosexual Pride: The BodyPower Exhibition

by Mark Simpson
August 9, 2016September 20, 2024

Mark Simpson visits the UK’s biggest fitness expo and tries not to stare too hard. Even though staring is encouraged. (Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph 4 August, 2016) “Would you like me to take my top off?” is the shy and retiring usual response when you ask a chap… Read More »Inside Spornosexual Pride: The BodyPower Exhibition

Spornosexual Steve Cook on the Meaning of Metrosexual

by Mark Simpson
November 15, 2015August 25, 2022

While prepping for my Barcelona lecture, ‘From Metrosexual to Spornosexual – a Permanent, Spectacular Masculine Revolution’, this video serendipitously popped up into MetroDaddy’s timeline on Twitter. It’s an exploration of the meaning of being called ‘metrosexual’ by professional bodybuilder and popular online fitness guru Steve Cook, who has his own YouTube channel… Read More »Spornosexual Steve Cook on the Meaning of Metrosexual