iven way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisi

Time was, men were men and sheep were nervous. Not so any more; one only has to cast an eye over the ranks of current male role models to spot the difference between today's and those of thirty years ago. Ok, the old macho types do occasionally rear their outsized heads, but for every Vinnie Jones or Jeremy Clarkson there are a dozen David Beckhams, Russell Brands, Richard Hamiltons, Graham Nortons, Alex Zanes, the list goes on and it is populated increasingly by the type of men who would have been laughed off the A list as recently as the late 1970s for being too effeminate, too nerdy or just too damn gay! Even the old rock warhorses such as Lemmy and Gene Vincent have given way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisi

y's and those of thirty years ago. Ok, the old macho types do occasionally rear their outsized heads, but for every Vinnie Jones or Jeremy Clarkson there are a dozen David Beckhams, Russell Brands, Richard Hamiltons, Graham Nortons, Alex Zanes, the list goes on and it is populated increasingly by the type of men who would have been laughed off the A list as recently as the late 1970s for being too effeminate, too nerdy or just too damn gay! Even the old rock warhorses such as Lemmy and Gene Vincent have given way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisi

d Beckhams, Russell Brands, Richard Hamiltons, Graham Nortons, Alex Zanes, the list goes on and it is populated increasingly by the type of men who would have been laughed off the A list as recently as the late 1970s for being too effeminate, too nerdy or just too damn gay! Even the old rock warhorses such as Lemmy and Gene Vincent have given way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisi

d off the A list as recently as the late 1970s for being too effeminate, too nerdy or just too damn gay! Even the old rock warhorses such as Lemmy and Gene Vincent have given way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisi

iven way to camp, foppish figures like Justin Hawkins and Matt Bellamy.

Just what has happened to male role models? Are we suffering a nationwide testosterone crisis? Has the male population lost sight of how to; as Tom Sawyer might have put it; spit, smoke and swear properly? Or could it be that society has moved on to the point where the patriarch is in fact unnecessary, do we no longer need silverbacks to keep our troupe on track?

It certainly seems that, if celebrity is anything to go by at any rate, young men's concept of who they'd like to be has shifted considerably in recent decades; but what of women's attitudes to the way masculinity appears to be changing?

Certainly there is no shortage of women who feel attracted to the new, more sensitive breed of man. One only has to look at the popularity of figures such a