YouGov’s young LGBTQ+ sleb ‘helpers’ I’m officially ancient. Possibly clinically dead. I only recognised three of these slebs – and forgot that Gaga was officially bisexual. Though given her dating history, that’s something she may be prone to herself. It’s also questionable just how recognised or influential any of these ‘LGBTQ+’… Read More »Rolling Your Own
This is how I see all beards. Pogonophiles might call me a pogonophobe – someone with an extreme dislike of beards – but I prefer to think of myself as a lover of the male face. And chin. And jawline. Plus, I’m ticklish. I also like a little mystery: I don’t want to… Read More »Face Furring: How Britain Grew a Beard
‘What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…’ So wrote the late Susan Sontag, in her classic 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’. It’s a great, persuasive line, but of course entirely and deliciously subjective. I tend to agree… Read More »On Feeling Totally Masculine
‘There is no middle ground – you are either heterosexual or homosexual.’ Until quite recently, this statement was regarded as common sense. More than this, it was a kind of widely shared article of quasi-religious faith, as prescriptive as it was descriptive. An Eleventh Commandment. Heterosexuality was the default, normal,… Read More »The Rise & Fall of Monosexuality
Facial hair fascinates me. I’m not actually much of a fan of it personally, but symbolically I’m besotted. Particularly the way that it is no longer a secondary sexual characteristic, a sign of manhood, or a love of Real Ale, but an adorable accessory that men today adopt and discard… Read More »What Do Men Want?