Men

Life & Culture

Why don’t straight men want to have sex anymore?

Maybe it’s not even that men don’t want sex – they just don’t want sex with the real women who are offering it to them

Life & Culture

Mar 19, 2024

Niloufar Haidari

Life & Culture

How algorithms are driving men and women apart

There’s mounting evidence to suggest that young men are becoming increasingly right-wing – and social media platforms could be to blame

Life & Culture

Feb 02, 2024

Serena Smith

Life & Culture

Young men are now ‘more conservative’ than boomers

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Life & Culture

Feb 01, 2024

Serena Smith

Film & TV

How The Wolf of Wall Street became the ultimate fuckboy film

In the ten years since the film’s release, anti-hero Jordan Belfort has become an idol for legions of straight men

Film & TV

Dec 15, 2023

Alice Porter

Beauty

Inside the rising ‘muscle dysmorphia crisis’ among young men

Defined as a preoccupation with one’s perceived lack of muscularity, muscle dysmorphia is becoming increasingly prevalent, causing what experts are calling a ‘silent crisis’ in men’s mental health

Beauty

Nov 20, 2023

Niamh Rowe

Music

Cher has been accused of kidnapping her own adult son

The entertainment icon allegedly hired four ‘men’ to escort her son from a New York hotel room where he and his estranged wife were staying in November 2022

Music

Sep 28, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Beauty

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Why so many men are preaching the spirituality of semen retention

Redditors are swearing off ejaculation and describing myriad spiritual and physical benefits – but how credible are these claims?

Beauty

Jun 22, 2023

Megan Wallace

Art & Photography

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In pictures: the raw, intensely physical world of college wrestling

In her new series The Lion and the Lamb, photographer Ashley Markle documents the young men coming of age in Colombia University’s wrestling ring

Art & Photography

May 22, 2023

Matthew Burgos

Art & Photography

These paintings depict a complex, shadowy view of masculinity

Kyle Dunn’s new exhibition, Night Pictures, studies a single queer protagonist in their most personal and contemplative moments

Art & Photography

May 05, 2023

Millen Brown-Ewens

Art & Photography

Erotically-charged portrayals of queer masculinity

In a new volume of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! edited by Ghislain Pascal, 60 photographers from over 30 different countries offer diverging depictions of queer manhood

Art & Photography

Apr 28, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Fashion

Chloé Nardin is putting the fuckboy archetype to bed

The designer’s AW23 collection places men in the middle of a medieval knight’s tale, complete with honk shoo hats and bunny rabbit sidekicks

Fashion

Apr 04, 2023

Daniel Rodgers

Life & Culture

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Opinion: can we please have more young male novelists in 2023?

A year after writing an unexpectedly incendiary article about the lack of young male voices in literature, writer Barry Pierce asks whether any progress has been made over the past 12 months

Life & Culture

Dec 20, 2022

Barry Pierce

Fashion

Menswear designer Aaron Esh is rewriting the masculine archetype

We catch up with London’s rising designer as he makes a case for no Tory policies and Monster Munch sandwiches

Fashion

Dec 15, 2022

Daniel Rodgers

Life & Culture

Why do straight men have no friends?

Research shows that the number of men with no close friends is increasing. Are we sleepwalking into a male loneliness epidemic?

Life & Culture

Nov 16, 2022

Serena Smith

Fashion

‘It’s about breaking down history’: Simone Rocha is taking men to trial

In an interview after her Old Bailey fashion show, Simone Rocha talks through her decision to debut menswear, the kind of masculinities she’s drawn to, and being deemed ‘uncool’ by Rihanna

Fashion

Sep 21, 2022

Daniel Rodgers