Tag Archives: Jersey Shore

Mikey Strokes His Pussy (For Charidee)

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino is looking pumped in this jokey-but-serious poster for PETA, encouraging cat owners to get their cats neutered. ‘The Occasional Table’ - as his fellow housemate Julian Clary hilariously dubbed him — looks rather more pumped than he did on Celebrity Big Brother this Summer, where he seemed very ‘off season’, spotty and …

October 13, 2012 – 2:13 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Let me Hear Your Body Talk

Are men the new women? I’ve always avoided using that line until now. As the (hetero)sexual division of labour and loving and looking continues to fall apart, men are the new everything. Just as women are. But in the last few months we’ve been told men now take longer getting ready than women, mercifully deleting at …

January 9, 2012 – 11:00 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, sport | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (15)

“When You Gotta Big Dick, You Don’t Gotta Do Nothin!”

Mike De Luca (played with sweaty verve by Jordan Nice) is an unemployed, rather lazy young Italian-American chap living in blue-collar, post-industrial Philly who decides to go with the metrosexy times and make his fame and fortune by turning his manhood into cash. Whipping it out on webcam for the punters, male and female. In …

August 19, 2011 – 2:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

‘Metrosexy: A 21st Century Self-Love Story’ by Mark Simpson out May 31st

metrosexy A 21st Century Self-Love Story by Mark Simpson Everything you always wanted to know about the end of sexuality (But were afraid to ask)  Back in the flaky-skinned early Nineties Mark Simpson predicted the future of men was metrosexual. How the world scoffed. But a decade into the tarty 21st Century, even he’s shocked …

May 3, 2011 – 12:58 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, bisexuality, commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

The North East Has a Situation: Geordie Shore

Last week I found myself chatting between sets, as you do, to a young, buff, absurdly attractive straight lad in a gym in the North East of England. He told me wanted to move to Miami. Why Miami? I asked. ‘I wanna be in Jersey Shore!’ he said, (which, confusingly, is now set in Miami). …

January 27, 2011 – 2:10 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

20 ‘Stella’ Years of Dolce & Gabbana For Men

by Mark Simpson, Arena Hommes Plus (Winter-Spring, 2010) America’s hottest new Hollywood stars – who naturally enough in this post-Hollywood era, don’t actually work in Hollywood but reality TV – were recently honoured with a profile in Interview magazine. The Italian-American ‘Guidos’ from MTV mega-hit ‘Jersey Shore’, who have conquered America with their brazenness and …

November 14, 2010 – 2:50 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, fashion, journalism, metrosexual, review | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)

Gym, Tanning, Laundry — A Metrosexual Mantra

Thanks to QRG for the link to this cartoon by Kim which manages to say much more than I can about metrosexuality and Jersey Shore.

September 29, 2010 – 4:08 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Metrosexuality and the City

Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood Discuss the End of Sexuality and Other Girlie Stuff huffingtonpost.com

April 13, 2010 – 7:18 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexual | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

The Metrosexual Noughties

Amidst the swathe of drearily predictable ‘decade  in review’ pieces that appeared at the end of December this one by Amanda Hess at The Sexist stood out as one which actually managed to offer some observational cultural insight, rather than just recycled cuttings and cliches: Think boys are simply born into their masculine gender role? …

January 7, 2010 – 7:11 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, retrosexual | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (24)