Category Archives: porn

Straight Sausagefests: The Slutty, Passive Pleasure of Porn

‘What do women want?’, is the title of a long feature by Amanda Hess at Good Magazine, based around a 25 year-old male (straight) porn star called ‘James Deen’, illustrated with some long-shot snaps of him fully-clothed, lounging around his ‘porn mansion’, looking like a young Roman Abramovich.  Despite ‘Deen’ turning out to be somewhat …

November 20, 2011 – 3:47 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in porn | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Why Straight Soldiers Can’t Stop Acting Gay on Video

Way back in the last century, before the Interweb swallowed everything, my friend and accomplice in literary crime Steve Zeeland were visiting, as you do, Camp Pendleton, the giant US Marine Corps base in Southern California with some jarhead friends. We spent the afternoon watching the Marine Rodeo — scores of grinning fit Texan boys …

May 14, 2010 – 2:56 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay, masculinity, metrosexual, porn | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Bear Grylls: Nature Gimp

I’ve often thought that Bear Grylls’ ‘survival’ programs with his frequent nakedness and subby eagerness to put all sorts of eeeurgh! things in his mouth in extreme close-up while generally putting his body on display and in harm’s way are really a form of fetish porn.  Bear Grylls: Nature Gimp. Yes, it’s true that I …

January 7, 2010 – 4:30 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, porn | Tagged , | Comments (24)

Banged Up in the Orgasmatron

By Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in Manner magazine) “Do you have any HUNG mates? I want to be GANGBANGED by several DONKEY DICKS and just TOTALLY USED! Oh, and do you have a videocam to record it all? You see, I want my first time to be really special.” Maybe I shouldn’t be complaining, and …

June 25, 2009 – 1:40 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in porn | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

From Finland With Lust: How Tom Re-Designed the Male Body

The teenage Tom of Finland’s gay fantasies from the 1940s of muscular men have come to define a mainstream view of masculinity, says Mark Simpson (The London Times, Nov 2008) The first time I saw a Tom of Finland drawing was in a well-thumbed, seventh-hand issue of Fiesta, a top-shelf favourite of schoolboys in the 1970s. The …

November 4, 2008 – 1:29 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, commentary, fashion, masculinity, metrosexual, porn | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Toughs, low-life, drag queens — Genet was the daddy of them all

Mark Simpson on how Jean Genet invented the internet (Independent on Sunday, June 2003) ‘I had already wondered what would become of the meeting of a handsome young guard and a handsome young criminal,” wrote Jean Genet in his 1943 debut prison novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, penned while he was himself serving a life …

February 15, 2007 – 1:41 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, masculinity, porn | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Keane Fury Over Roasting Romp

I don’t blame Keane for being furious. I’m positively seething myself that no one invited me either. ‘Stars in sick orgy’ (strapline to the print version — doesn’t appear online) Another example of how sporno is fast becoming porno — or is porno becoming sporno? Tabloid newspapers in the UK can’t get enough of these …

December 7, 2006 – 8:50 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, commentary, masculinity, porn, sporno | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Sporno gets even more spornographic

Ooo-la-la! The 2007 Dieux du Stade calendar is upon us and it seems to be even naughtier, even saucier — and somehow even more graphic — than last year’s. How do they do that? Without actually using those rugby balls as sex toys instead of just holding them that way? Even I — even I — …

December 1, 2006 – 11:22 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, porn, sporno | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (11)

Sexual Outlaws: ‘Gay For Pay’ Paratroopers

This month’s Details magazine carries a letter (which Details strangely neglected to show to me) by veteran gay writer John Rechy, author of the cult 60s hustler novels ‘City of Night’ and ‘Numbers’, and the 70s plea for homo tolerance ‘The Sexual Outlaw’ (books I enjoyed as teenager in the 80s). He takes issue with …

August 25, 2006 – 4:47 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, commentary, gay, masculinity, porn, sex | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (61)

Wanking On: How Masturbation Became Aspiration

Mark Simpson gets to grips with a man’s favourite bad habit ‘WANKER!’. A bastard blue van has just cut me up, pulling out suddenly from a side-street right in front of me, forcing me to brake. Hard. So I respond in the customary English way: winding down the window, leaning out and calling him, at the …

August 4, 2006 – 1:24 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, current affairs, journalism, masculinity, porn, sex | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)