What the hell is up with all the ass grabbing on the Football Field?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

It's not OK for dudes to hug and kiss in this country, but it's OK to touch each others asses? :shrug:

[texanwitch]

1. I noticed that in sports.

And walking around naked in the locker room.

I would never like another person of either sex grabbing at my ass.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I know, right!

And my ass is ticklish, so there's that too! LOL

[KurtNYC]

3. you know why they have bars on the front of the helmets?

A: to keep them from kissing each other

(until later).

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I'm almost afraid to show you this.

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[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Oh Shit.

If I didn't already love you before, I would now.
You are amazeballs!!! :rofl:
Duckie

[Haole Girl]

6. lol! I just saw what you mean

:D

[begin_within]

7. "You can fuck me, just don't kiss me."

The Book of Straight Manliness, Chapter 1, verse 1.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Oh, come on, sports are the only place that homoeroticism is considered "manly"

and "American" and "as wonderful as our man-soldiers with their well-hung American crotches and tight American-man ass fleshes".

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. GEEZ!!! You write so well, I just "turned" gay. The fundies musta been right about your agenda. n/t

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Funny. All of a sudden, I can't visualize any fundie but a hot, manly football-fondlin' fundie.
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I'll be in my locker room.
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[Deep13]

10. Surpressed homo-eroticism. nt

[Joe Fields]

11. They get caught up in the moment.

[jobycom]

12. I think the excitement just overcomes the body-fear culture has instilled in them.

We're taught so much to fear bodily contact, to think of it all as sexual unless it's a formal, torso-only hug, or a gentle pat on the shoulder or hand. Emotionally, we crave contact, but prudes have trained us to think that all contact could lead to sex, and therefore must be avoided or sanitized, unless of course we are trying for sex. So we are afraid to touch people we aren't sexually attracted to, and even people we are attracted to if we don't have some sexual invitation to do so. Even the responses in this thread interpret that as sexual, joking that it's homoerotic. We've lost that natural human expression because of religious emotional repression.

In the passion of a game, emotion overcomes our conditioning. People grab, pat, hug, whatever. It's not sexual (well, it might be for some, but in general). They act natural.

That's my theory, anyway. Probably wrong. I usually am.