"The Rise And Rise of the Spornosexual"

"“That’s one of its great virtues. Vulgarity, like sex, is never ironic. Which is why hipsters, the anti-sexual wing of metrosexuality, hate spornosexuals. Which shades into the general, historical English (middle class) problem with bodies and pleasure. And the particular discomfort with the ‘open’, ‘passive’, neediness of today’s male’s desire to be desired.”I mention to Simpson my theory that Hollywood’s men are becoming increasingly stacked. He doesn’t disagree, but notes, “I also think that Hollywood still has problems with red-blooded spornosexuality, and its full-on sensuality and shameless tartiness. Hollywood often feels the need to justify all that male voluptuousness with dead bodies — he’s no spornosexual, dude! He’s a warrior! In that I think that they’re way behind much of Essex and the North East.”"
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7588/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-spornosexual/

The philosophizing in here is really interesting. The piece about the 80s redefining masculinity in certain regions of Britain, near the end, makes me wonder if that kind of analysis could be done in the US.