mark-simpson

Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, __an-bags_ or __anscara_. Or about men becoming __irlie_ or __ay_. It__ about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It__ the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It__ the end of sexuality as we__e known it.

At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even __egular guys_ are apparently just a fashion fad _ this season__ accessory.

In the 21st century men__ tits have not just rivalled but replaced women__ as the touchstone of __exy_ in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.

Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn__ a fashion _ it__ an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be __assive_ _ inviting our gaze.