Iron rules for Simmo’s Swoletopia Anyone who has used a public gym regularly has daydreamed about being in charge of one. At least for an hour. Not so much paying the bills and checking the toilets, as laying down the law. A strongman, a shredded Caesar, running the muscle factory… Read More »Gym Dic(k)tator
You may have seen this photo of four young (white) working class lads minding their own business enjoying an evening on the town together, dressed in the way many working class lads dress these days – showing off their ink, their worked-out bodies, and their shaped facial hair. Spornosexuals. Taken… Read More »Tight Trousers & Slut-Shaming
A week before gyms were shuttered for lockdown back in March, I managed to buy a pull-up bar, a dip stand – great for lower pecs, triceps, inverted rows and drying socks – plus an ab roller. (I’m not sure whether ab rollers actually work, but they make me think… Read More »Lockdown Pressups
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)
‘Metrodaddy’Â Mark Simpson on the evolution of male vanity (Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph June 10, 2014 – with a title I did not choose) In a development which will probably have him running to the mirror yet again to search anxiously for lines, this year the metrosexual leaves his teens and… Read More »From Metrosexual to Spornosexual – Two Decades of Male Deliciousness