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Eng­lish author and jour­nal­ist Mark Simp­son is credited/blamed for coin­ing ‘met­ro­sex­ual’ in an essay titled ‘Here come the mir­ror men’ in the UK’s Inde­pen­dent news­pa­per in 1994.

Com­pound­ing his crime, Simp­son intro­duced his insuf­fer­ably pretty off­spring to the US in 2002, out­ing David Beck­ham as the prime exem­plar and start­ing the cur­rent global epi­demic of met­ro­sex­ma­nia. Simp­son is also attrib­uted with intro­duc­ing us to the ‘ret­ro­sex­ual’ (in the sense of the anti-metrosexual).

In 2010 the global cool-hunting/trend-spotting web­site Sci­ence of the Time described him as ‘the world’s most per­cep­tive writer about mas­culin­ity’.  The Times of India included ‘met­ro­sex­ual’ in their review of the most impor­tant words of the last thirty years, commenting:

“Much has been writ­ten about met­ro­sex­u­als, but no one has done it as well as the man cred­ited with coin­ing the term, Mark Simpson.”

In Decem­ber 2008 GQ Rus­sia listed him top­less and oiled up in their top ten Things That Changed Men’s Lives, above Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger, Sig­mund Freud — and even Bio­therm Homme.

Both The New York Times and The Lon­don Times acclaimed his saucy new con­cept of ‘Sporno’ (‘the place where sport and porn meet and pro­duce a spec­tac­u­lar money shot’) as one of their ‘Ideas of the Year’.

Simp­son has writ­ten for far too many pub­li­ca­tions around the world, includ­ing The Lon­don Times, Salon.com, Arena Homme Plus, Dutch Play­boy, Out, the Inde­pen­dent, the Seat­tle Stranger, the Guardian, Vogues Hommes Inter­na­tional, Atti­tude and Details.

Books by mark simpson:

Met­ro­sexy

 ”“Wildly intel­li­gent and ter­ri­fy­ingly funny, his out­landish pre­dic­tions on the fate of mankind have all proved unnerv­ingly pre­scient. I dread to think what he might come up with next. Read him at your leisure but ignore him at your peril.” – Jake Arnott, author of ‘The Long Firm’

Saint Mor­ris­sey

“Funny, clever, hon­est, irrev­er­ent and ego­tis­ti­cal: Simp­son is quite the match for Mor­ris­sey. More biogra­phies should be writ­ten this way.”

- Inde­pen­dent on Sun­day ‘Books of the Year’

Male Imper­son­ators

“Bril­liant” — Observer

It’s a Queer World

“You’d have to be a chronic depres­sive not to laugh’” — New States­man

Anti-Gay (Ed.)

“The year’s most con­tro­ver­sial book” — BBC Radio Five

The Queen Is Dead

(with Steve Zeeland)

“Some­thing of a mas­ter­piece’ — Inde­pen­dent

Sex Ter­ror

“Mag­nif­i­cent… Open Simpson’s book any­where you like as often as you like and you’ll find gem-like sen­tences Zadie Smith would give her white teeth for” — Suzi Feay, Inde­pen­dent on Sunday

What the press says about Mr Simpson:

“A SKINHEAD OSCAR WILDE, SIMPSON’S BON MOTS ARE BOTH ALARMING AND AMUSING, GETTING UP PEOPLE’S NOSES AND INSIDE THEIR TROUSERS WITH EQUAL APLOMB” — Philip Hen­sher, Inde­pen­dent

“THE GAY ANTI-CHRIST” – Vogue

“I ALMOST HATE TO AGREE WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS” – Lon­don Review of Books

“AN AMUSED, DETACHED VOLTAIRE” — Inde­pen­dent on Sunday

“ERUDITE, INCISIVE, SASSY… FRESH, HILARIOUS” — Pub­lish­ers Weekly

“ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST WRITERS AROUND” — Time Out

“SIMPSON WRITES WITH ENOUGH PANACHE TO MAKE MOST OF HIS PEERS TOSS THEIR LAPTOPS INTO THE WASTE DISPOSAL AND WEEP” — Simon Price, Inde­pen­dent on Sunday

“BRILLIANTLY BUCCANEERING” – Spec­ta­tor

“SERIOUSLY FUNNY” - Scot­land On Sunday

“SPUNKY’” — Lambda Book Report

“ONE OF ENGLAND’S MOST ELOQUENT AND SARDONIC COMMENTATORS” – Bay Win­dows

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