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by Java Mann...
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.
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