Tag Archives: Metrosexy

Diet Cock: Coca Cola’s Porno Promo

As an avid voyeur of the media’s marketing of the male body I meant to write about this new Diet Coke advert ‘Gardener’ when it first strutted its stuff a a month or so back, but it completely slipped my mind — like a chilled, beading soft drink can in a lubed hand. Apologies. Obviously …

March 19, 2013 – 9:17 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Gratuitous Simpson

If you’re a member of Amazon Prime in the US, UK, France or Germany and own a Kindle you can e-borrow Metrosexy, Saint Morrissey and Male Impersonators for nowt. (Though Amazon promises to bung me a couple of dollars for each lend.)

October 28, 2012 – 2:07 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

“He was 35yrs old with 4% body fat and a 42″ chest”

Incredibly Sexy Firefighter Tragically Dies In Steamy Blaze Tip: Paul Q

October 3, 2012 – 1:11 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

‘Mâle Au Corps’: Mark Simpson talks to ‘Liberation’

Mark Simpson interviewed by Clement Ghys in France’s Liberation newspaper about the evolution of his metrosexual offspring – and Justin Timberlake’s ass. (Unedited English email Q&A, April 2012) CG: In 1994, you coined the term “Metrosexual”. Looking back, how would you say the concept has evolved? In what way do you find this definition still relevant? …

April 19, 2012 – 2:03 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in interview with Mark Simpson | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Metrosexual Smoothie

Burger King have come a long way from their ‘manthem’ anti-metro backlash days of the mid Noughties in which they literally sang the praises of fatty food. Now their ads star the ultimate metrosexual smoothie, David Beckham, who is given the kind of soft-focus, mouth-watering treatment in this ad that used to be reserved for their ‘man-food’ Whoppers. …

April 4, 2012 – 2:21 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, Beckham, commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Today’s men are obsessed with their bodies — but is that so bad?

Yours truly in today’s Guardian.

January 31, 2012 – 9:20 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Sexy and I Show It: Parading Cadets (& Olympic Divers)

Last year metrodaddy declared the LMFAO dance hit ‘Sexy and I Know It’ an anthem  for the Jersey Shore/Geordie Shore/The Only Way is Essex/The Hunks/Men’s Health Magazine generation of metrosexy young men and the metaphorical (and not so metaphorical) spangly Speedos they’re flaunting themselves in. But I have to say I was a tad ambivalent about the heavily ironic …

January 25, 2012 – 2:27 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexy, music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Ciao Bello! Mark Simpson interviewed by Italian mag ‘Studio’

English (unedited) version of Q&A with Mark Simpson by Michele Masneri for Italian cultural  magazine Studio in which he talks about the Italian roots of sporno, the next stage of metrosexuality – and the Silviosexual What do you mean by the word “sporno”? The place where sport and porn get into bed while Mr Armani takes pictures. …

January 19, 2012 – 7:03 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in interview with Mark Simpson, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

David Beckham’s ‘End Result’ — Can You Handle It?

Better order some industrial strength lip balm and practise suppressing the gag reflex. Shameless sporno star and uber-metrosexual David Beckham is ramming his eye-popping lunchbox down our collective throats again. This time with a media ‘offensive’ for his own line of men’s undies – and strangely shapeless vests – from Swedish-owned high street fashion chain …

January 4, 2012 – 3:44 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Beckham, fashion, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)

Gifting ‘Metrosexy’, ‘St Moz’ or ‘Male Impersonators’ on Kindle

If you have their email address you can gift a friend — or an enemy — a copy of a Simpson Kindle book. (At the moment this service is only available from Amazon.com. Gift vouchers are currently the only way to gift a Kindle book at Amazon.co.uk.)  

January 3, 2012 – 4:48 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged , | Comments Off