DO WE NEED A MENAISSANCE?
Are you more offended by the recent ads in the windows of Ann Summers making the Rampant Rabbit vibrator the end point of male evolution, or the new campaign for Sean John’s aftershave Unforgivable, which features a macho black model in bed with two Asian babes? Personally, I’d go for the Rabbit. Just think if a high street shop stocking sex toys for men stuck a blow-up doll in its window and told their customers it was superior to the real thing. It’s unimaginable, yet, contrastingly, contemporary advertising routinely humiliates men, just as, in the old days, it did women. Sure, the system
could do with further tweaking, due to the exigencies of biology, babies and the work-life balance, but how does ridiculing the male sex help? In the States, they’re having what they’ve dubbed a “Menaissance”, with the crude-as-you-like Alphabet of Manliness top of the best-seller lists and Tucker Max’s scatological blog soon to be a book. The good news is that over here, we get The Dangerous Book for Boys, a hymn not to machismo but manliness. Ladies, it’s time for us to lay down our weapons, and that includes the Rabbit.
Illustration by Joy Gosney
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
Illustration by Joy Gosney
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
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