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Mark Simpson

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Born

York, The United Kingdom

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http://www.marksimpson.com

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Entertainment

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July 2016

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English author and journalist Mark Simpson is credited/blamed for ‘fathering’ the metrosexual in 1994, predicting with terrifying accuracy, that the future belonged to the male desire to be desired.

He is the author of several critically-acclaimed books.

“SIMPSON WRITES WITH ENOUGH PANACHE TO MAKE MOST OF HIS PEERS TOSS THEIR LAPTOPS INTO THE WASTE DISPOSAL AND WEEP”
– Independent on Sunday

“THE GAY ANTI-CHRIST” – Vogue

“I ALMOST HATE TO AGREE WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS” – LRB

“AN AMUSED, DETACHED VOLTAIRE”
– Independent on Sunday

“ERUDITE, INCISIVE, SASSY… FRESH, HILARIOUS” – Publishers Weekly

“ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST WRITERS AROUND” – Time Out

“BRILLIANTLY BUCCANEERING”
– Spectator

“SERIOUSLY FUNNY”
– Scotland On Sunday

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Spornosexual Style – By Lacoste

Taylor Zakhar Perez ‘Flashdances’ in Lacoste’s locker room, in a “new expression of masculinity” that is, in fact, very familiar now To remind us what reflecting the male gaze back onto itself has done to masculinity in the forty years since Nick Kamen stripped in “Laundrette”, here’s Taylor Zakhar Perez, co-star of the ‘gay ‘ –… Read More »Spornosexual Style – By Lacoste

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Average rating: 3.59 · 926 ratings · 74 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Saint Morrissey 3.52 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity 3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anti-Gay 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metrosexy 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End of Gays? 3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Terror: Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen is Dead : A Story of Jarheads, Eggheads, Serial Killers and Bad Sex by Mark Simpson (Goodreads Author), Steven Zeeland 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Mark Simpson wrote a new blog post Forty Years of Prime-Time Male Tarting How the Levi’s “Laundrette” ad reflected the male gaze back on itself Four decades ago, on Boxing Day 1995, an ad for old-fashioned button-fly jeans f Read more of this blog post »
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“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”
― Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

tags: defiance, destiny, skin, tattoos

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“Bond is now the Bond Girl of the opening credits. It’s his silhouette we see – and nary a dancing naked babe in sight. Perhaps to compensate for this, in the actual film he gets his tits out a lot. He emerges from the sea glistening, showing off his pumped boobs, like Ursula Andress in ‘Dr No’ — save his nipples are more prominent. Bond has finally become his own Bond Girl.”
― Mark Simpson, Metrosexy

tags: daniel-craig, james-bond, metrosexual

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“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”
― Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

tags: artist, morrissey, sulking, temperament

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