Of thee I singlet

When I was coming out, one of my earliest sources of video erotica was not rented VHS tapes or dank porn theaters but the mainstream wrestling programs that aired on national television. Few sources of entertainment were more homoerotic than these muscular giants in minimal clothing grappling with and practically mounting one another on a stage for all to see.

As it turned out, my own sense of the erotic wasn't that far off the mainstream. Before long, it became pretty common to find videos of porn stars wrestling as a kind of foreplay to sex. Other similarly themed erotica omitted the sex but featured wrestlers who finished off their opponent by stripping off their minimal clothing, leaving them naked and spent in the ring.

And today of course there is no dearth of YouTube and similar videos of actual wrestling events highlighting full-on erections that can't be hidden by their form-fitting singlets.

Although I personally would like to see more sports performed in the nude (as the ancient Olympians did), there is something very sensual about some sports gear. Moreover, there is something erotic about the donning and removal of that or any article of clothing. If we can have games like strip poker, why not strip wrestling, basketball, golf, or more? Promoters should give some thought to this angle, methinks.

All of which is the stuff of fantasy, of course. And this month, I decided to explore that fantasy a bit with photographer and friend Andrew Adam Caldwell in a photo shoot I call Give it a wrestle, now on display in the Nakedism photo gallery. Check it out. Then wrestle off your own clothes and enjoy a sporting fantasy of your own.