“In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissistic male metrosexuality. This… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic’s unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, ‘man-bags’ or ‘manscara’. Or about men becoming ‘girlie’ or ‘gay’.… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“There’s a famous quote which goes something like, ‘You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be’. Maybe there’s some… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that’s where… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
