Tag Archives: Men’s Health

It’s Not a Journey: The Endless Trend of Male Vanity

The next time someone tries to convince me that Pitt is ‘a really great actor, actually’ I’ll just throw my eyes around the room in a casually-but-profoundly dramatic fashion before fixing them on the Fight Club fanboy — and it always is a Fight Club fanboy — and saying: “THERE you ARE!” I don’t mean to …

October 21, 2012 – 11:36 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (12)

Chris Evans is Captain Cocktease

You know how everyone complains that the best bits of a movie are in the trailer these days? Well, in the case of the new super-hero blockbuster Captain America the ONLY bits are in the trailer. But WHAT bits they are! At around c. 1.40 mins Chris Evans’ oiled bazookas burst out of the instant stud machine he’s …

August 8, 2011 – 10:19 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in film | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

Public Information Film Warns Men’s Health Mag & Disco Blurs Desire & Envy, Making Men Dizzy

  Tip: Andre Murracas

April 10, 2011 – 3:56 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, metrosexual, music | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (12)

Men’s Health Staff Celebrate News That Narcissism Is No Longer an Illness

I jest of course. The staff at Men’s Health wish they looked like that. Even if I’m sure quite a few of them dance like that – when the readers can’t see them (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell may be about to be repealed in the US Armed Forces, but not any time soon at Men’s Health publisher Rodale …

December 20, 2010 – 10:21 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (9)

Men’s Health Magazine Appoints New Brazilian Editor

Is it wrong to be slightly turned on?

November 26, 2009 – 12:46 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (19)

The Men’s Health Fleshlight

Tip: Donald K

October 18, 2009 – 4:32 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , | Comments (5)

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)

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

Little Britain Touches Up Uncle Sam

By Mark Simpson (Guardian, 20 October, 2008) ‘What other culture could have produced someone like Ernest Hemingway,’ waspish bisexual American exile Gore Vidal once asked of America’s favourite so-butch-he’s-camp writer, ‘and not seen the joke?’. The answer, was, of course, that only a culture that couldn’t see the joke could produce a Hemingway. I don’t …

October 20, 2008 – 7:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, comedy, commentary, masculinity, television | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

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)