As one of many gay men who find wrestling a turn on, I ask myself, why? Besides the obvious allure of scantily clad men pressing and grabbing each other’s sweaty bodies (and that would be enough), I think there’s something more about the sexually provocative nature of wrestling for many gay men. Wrestling also plays to the sexuality of power, domination and submission. Perhaps there’s a primal connection between sex and domination, but it plays a special function for gay men, I believe. As the more testosterone-fueled half of the species, men pitting their strength against one another aggressively is probably rooted in evolutionary behavior of male competition for mates. The strongest, fiercest, and dominant males in most species end up passing along their genes as a result of besting other male rivals to claim their sexual prize (typically females). To physically dominate another male is often the immediate precursor to sex. For gay men at this point in the evolutionary stream, perhaps that primal connection between physical competition and the sexual prize is simply translated for many gay men today. We get off not only on the bodies and their proximity, but also on the exchange of power, the domination and submission, and our genetic coding that ties together one man’s domination and another man’s submission to sex. Of course, this little theory may be totally wrong. But I’m certain that there’s more than just hot bodies and groping that makes wrestling a major genre for gay male porn. It certainly gets my blood pumping to see not only hot bodies battling, but one of them controlling, dominating, possessing the other. The cocky stud, the humiliated hunk, one gladiator clearly toying with another… the story itself is incredibly sexy. All the gay wrestling productions work the angle of domination and submission. Though not strictly gay, the French wrestling video company W&L also does a nice job of telling the domination story.
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I've been reading your Blog, and I have to say, I agree with you greatly on this whole Wrestling phenomeon. The domination of the wrestling is the part that really draws my attention, and not the half (or fully) naked men doing the wrestling. At ths same time though, things have to be just right in the act of domination or else the entire sitaution totally fails. I need to pin it down exactly myself, but I have a feeling that we are "kindred sprits" on this topic. As for your theory as to aggression leading to sexual desire, I too have wonders and theorized in this direction. I also came to realize that if it is the act of domination that causes the sexual arousal, then something is very… different, for people like me (us?). That it isn't the act of sex that causes me (us?) to orgasim, but rather the mental mindset of the domination / helplessness being witnessed.The thoughts are… disturbing to say the least. While I personally fantisize about very sadistic torture in the ring (preferably a heel making a face suffer in agony in front of a large crowd while being made compeletely helpless), the last thing I would ever want is for that fantasy to be real.I'll keep checking your blog (and I've applied for membership to your google group), but I think I might be interseted in talking to you more about this. Afterall, it's not every day I encounter a person I can talk to about this type of thing.
SubmissionMaster – Great to hear your reflections! I think we probably are "kindred spirits," and happily, there are many, many others of us out there. In fact, I'd theorize that no one gets off on the "act of sex" per se, but that everyone's orgasm is directly related to their imaginative capacity. That's just a theory, though. I'd be happy to chat with you more. Drop me an email at wrestlebard@yahoo.com.