Month: May 2010

Footballers’ wives? Hold the wags, just ‘ballers please

Photo above is Japanese ex-footballer Hidetoshi Nakata for Calvin Klein. I’ve never been that into sports per se. I’ve grown up with a distant American girl, West Coast appreciation for baseball and basketball. But I’ve always been more into skating, snowboarding, surfing, fighting, motorcycle racing and BMX. And now that I think about it, I’ve…

Image of Natasha S from this gallery. Yesterday I read two great articles about sociologist Catherine Hakim’s theory on “erotic capital.” One way by Hakim herself in the pages of Prospect magazine titled Have you got erotic capital? The other was an interview with Hakim called Making capital out of sex appeal, which explains that:…