I remember the first time I ordered a gay wrestling video. I was just about light-headed with excitement when it arrived in the mail. Popping it in the VCR, I was struck with the realization that I wasn’t alone – not as a gay man, nor as a gay man turned on by wrestling. The internet probably gets that message across much more effectively these days. In this day of immediate gratification, I doubt many people are waiting for their homoerotica to arrive in the (literal) mailbox. But for all that “gay adult entertainment” ever was and wasn’t, at least in part I believe it was a lifeline to isolated gay men, a hint that there are enough of us to make gay porn (soft and hard) a thriving industry. Not to overstate the case, of course… it’s first and foremost about getting our rocks off. Glad to see gay wrestling productions like BG East and Can-Am expanding their presence on the net. And I think it’s great that BG Wrestling is posting some clips of their materials on YouTube. I hope there are young gay men coming across some of these vintage clips and discovering a little wrestling-fetishist within themselves!
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