Well, the fab chaps and chapettes at The Red Knob have been quiescent for a little while - but fear not…we’re hitting the road yet again! Representatives from the mighty Knob will be appearing at the Royal College of Nursing sexual health conference tomorrow in London…exploring the theme of lifestyle, subculture, and young men’s health…we’re […]
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Then I reached inside a Snide bush
And the next thing that I knew,
I felt my hand touch someone!
And I’ll bet that you know who.
And for those people familiar with Dr Seuss’s wonderful book -The Sneetches, you may also recall another story within that weighty tome entitled ‘What was I scared of?’ - a cautionary tale […]
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“The male salmon is as pugnacious as the little stickleback….” Charles Darwin
“He’s an intelligent bloke, why doesn’t he wear one?” The Semen Skater
Watching a TV programme on Darwinism the other night, I couldn’t help but think about Mr Jarvis Cocker’s rockin’ beat combo Pulp and their popular music ditty Common People. Here we are spinning […]
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Well, next week is sexual health week - an invention of those arbiters of sexual health, the fpa? Whilst it would be boorish (who, us?) to knock the earnestness of the fpa and sexual health week - and any of the other campaigns that are run pre-Christmas, St Valentine’s Day and whenever the whim takes […]
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Hope…
In the news this week - at last ’a breakthrough’ with regard to treatment for prostate cancer. Hailed in a BBC News article as ‘the most significant advance in the field for 70 years’, and cautiously applauded in other news articles, it is claimed that the drug Abiraterone, which works by blocking the hormones which cause the cancer […]
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This is The Red Knob fanzine. It’s about sexual health. It is targeted at a specific male cultural group according to principles of social marketing segmentation - it applies the sociology theory of masculinities to define the masculine group it is aimed at, and uses language and humour, cartoons and imagery that may offend the […]
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I watched a programme tonight about pensioners and their hardships in relation to keeping themselves warm on a State pension in Britain - given that fuel prices have risen by 73 percent since 1970. Last week’s news covered how much petroleum companies had made in profit… Coincidence? I think not. The real money is in […]
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