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Homoerrectus / Getdetails.com
I must admit
that the Internet is a wonderful invention. Without it (obviously) you
wouldn’t be reading this. If you know how to use it, it is an endless source
of news, information, porn, and the occasional thing that makes you roll on
the floor laughing. Since my editor frowns on me actually submitting porn (I
tried it once... It was a slow week), and since you can get news and
information elsewhere, I guess it falls on me to share the following with you:
“It is
immoral. We are trying every way to have this stopped… We shall pass this
matter on to the interior, foreign and other ministries to ask for this
disgusting business to be stopped.” These are the words of Alper Yazoglu,
chairman of the Traditional Sports Federation of Turkey. Alper is commenting
on a group of homosexuals planning to attend (as spectators only) Turkey’s
annual (all male) oil-wrestling competition.
The sport of oil
wrestling dates back to the middle ages, and the Turk’s exodus from Asia.
Each year the contestants, wearing only leather trousers, douse themselves
with olive oil and wrestle. Hey folks, it’s just good, clean fun. Shoving a
hand down your opponent’s trousers to get a better, um... grip, is legal and
quite common.
The competitors
are banning together to try and prevent the Bears of Turkey, a group of
homosexuals, from attending the event. I can understand their point. It’s
one thing to do something really queer, and quite another to know queers are
watching you as you do something really queer. It’s like two teenaged guys
jacking off together. There’s nothing queer about that, as long as you never
admit you enjoyed it.
I suspect Alper
and his group are going about this all wrong. There is big money to be made
here, and gay dollars (or whatever the currency of Turkey is) spend just as
easily as their straight counter-parts. This could be big, the next
incarnation of mud or Jell-O wrestling. Of course, having seen pictures of
past events, I suspect they’ll have to get some better-looking guys to
compete.
The Bears of
Turkey are an Internet group that eloquently describes itself as “just a
bunch of guys who try to get together and do things”.
I could suggest several other “things” for them to do, many that do
not involve olive oil, but the group insists it will still attend the event
scheduled for July 1 and 2.
I for one
will not be attending. I’ll just stay home and watch videotapes of
Wrestlemania.
GetDetails.com, May 2000
http://www.getdetails.com/commentary/homoerrectus/oliveoil.html
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