Tag Archives: Phalliban

Viennese Gag on Big Strudels

A poster campaign advertising ‘Nude Men’ (“a long overdue exhibition on the diverse and changing depictions of naked men from 1800 to the present”) at the Leopold Museum in Vienna seems to have aroused the passions of the local phalliban. I thought the Austrians, like the nut-brown Germans I spied on in Corfu when I …

October 20, 2012 – 12:01 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Phalliban | Tagged , , , | Comments (11)

Firemen’s Big Hose Sets NY Ablaze

By Mark Simpson, (The Guardian, 8 Aug 2007) The Phalliban, America ‘s killjoy campaign against the male body’s, er, maleness, strikes yet again. The 2008 Fire Department of New York Calendar of Heroes, the eleventh in series of snaps of buffed young firemen stripped to the waist which produces mass hysteria on the streets of NY on …

August 7, 2007 – 4:54 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, Phalliban | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

Pillars of the community — the Phalliban pops up again

  In the latest example of the prudish power of the USA’s rampant Phalliban, outraged residents of Kaiser, Oregon, have demanded the removal of some newly installed safety pillars. Apparently they are too reminiscent of male genitalia. What a load of bollards. Although I’m no expert on American penises, I’ve seen a few in my …

July 9, 2007 – 2:08 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Phalliban | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Speedophobia: America’s Fear and Loathing of Budgie Smuggling

Mark Simpson undresses the tortured relationship between American men and their swimsuits (Out, February 2007) PROHIBITED… THE WEARING OF SKIN-TIGHT FORM-FITTING OR BIKINI TYPE APPAREL OR BATHING SUITS BY MALES OVER 12 YRS. AGE  If the stern, killjoy rubric of this warning sign, erected in the 1960s by the good people of Cape May, N.J., sounds …

February 11, 2007 – 3:55 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, masculinity, Phalliban | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)