QSome buds and I recently brought up the topic of homo-eroticism in sports. The main sport of conversation was rugby, but you could almost apply the same gay undertones in the more obvious sports like wrestling and swimming, and perhaps even boxing and baseball. In rugby specifically, I heard there are a lot of "traditions" that seem, well, gay. One tradition I heard about had to do with building team camaraderie by having the whole team strip naked and pretending to do an elephant trunk walk. There’s a lot of similar "traditions" in rugby, and my question purely out of curiosity is, do these contact (and noncontact) sports have some roots in some dude-on-dude action? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Read more
