Tag Archives: FHM

Mr ‘Thing’: Pejic and his Prophet

‘All truly beautiful things are a mixture of masculine and feminine.’ So said the late Susan Sontag. And she would know. I’ve only just read a recent profile of the transexy Serbian model Andrej Pejic in The New Yorker called, with only a soupçon of hyperbole, ‘The Prettiest Boy in the World’. Pejic, who sometimes models women’s fashion, sometimes men’s …

September 3, 2011 – 2:28 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Metrosexuals Continue Their Terrifying Global Take-Over

These reports just in.… In the Far East young men continue their rush headlong towards a totally metrosexed society. According to the Korea Times, South Korea, young men, including soldiers, are now wearing ‘colour lotion’ (a messy combination of foundation, ‘lotion’ and sun screen). Over in Japan my spy on Japanese metrosexuality Daniela K informs me …

March 25, 2010 – 11:16 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)

Final Triumph of Metrosexuality: Men’s Tits More Popular Than Women’s

It’s official. Men’s tits are now more popular than women’s. With men. Men’s Health, the metromag with the pec-fest, ab-tastic covers is now the best-selling men’s magazine in the UK, selling more than 250,000, compared to 235,000 for previous best-seller so-called ‘lad mag’ FHM with its famous cover babes sporting udders almost as big as those of Men’s Health …

August 24, 2009 – 2:36 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (19)

Shock News: Mens Glossies Promote Metrosexuality

According to yesterday’s The Sunday Times, the so-called ‘laddish’ culture promoted by men’s magazines has spawned a new medical condition: ‘athletica nervosa’, or an obsession with exercise: New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may be trapping them into an unhealthy …

March 17, 2008 – 10:07 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)