Mark-simpson Quote by Mark Simpson

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

“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

“Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.”

— Mark Simpson

“The world does not need a ‘gay Elvis’, for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was…

— Mark Simpson