Mark Simpson's Subby

My Hot Missed Date with the Cambridge Union

A Gothic Revival gone painfully wrong

Jun 1 • Mark Simpson

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April 2026

Waxing (& Spanking) Desmond Morris

When "man-watchers" collide

Apr 28 • Mark Simpson

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David Hoyle, Supermodel

Seer, prophet, avant garde DQ, interpretative dance sensation and leggy legend models Mugler. Or is it t'other way round?

Apr 24 • Mark Simpson

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Assassinated by A.I.

The indignity of being deleted for not being convincingly human

Apr 14 • Mark Simpson

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Post Paternal

Saying farewell to a father from a "no fuss" generation

Apr 10 • Mark Simpson

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March 2026

Lashings of Manly Love in a Humvee

Two memoirs about two US Gulf invasions, what they reveal about the nature of war - and the passionate camaraderie of the "masculine cult" that is the…

Mar 31 • Mark Simpson

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February 2026

Motorway Mares

The 'liminal limbo-land' where people’s darkest personality defects come out to play

Feb 19 • Mark Simpson

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Attack of the Swole Teens

Those packs of teenagers swarming over the pec-deck I was about to use are in the news

Feb 14 • Mark Simpson

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Spornosexual Style

Taylor Zakhar Perez 'Flashdances' in Lacoste's locker room, in a "new expression of masculinity" that is, in fact, very familiar now

Feb 4 • Mark Simpson

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January 2026

Forty Years of Prime-Time Male Tarting

How the Levi's "Laundrette" TV ad reflected the male gaze back on itself

Jan 31 • Mark Simpson

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Camberwick Green Revisited

Remembrance of puppetry past

Jan 23 • Mark Simpson

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December 2025

Broadband Sodomy

Porn panics are the kink the commentariat can't kick

Dec 12, 2025 • Mark Simpson

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