Barefoot,  I have loved reading all these genuine and insightful comments.  Definitely makes me feel like this is a real community—-people share honestly without fear of being dismissed or ridiculed.  I have been thinking about the question of why we love wrestling so much.  Somehow,  because it is such a primal desire,  it’s hard to put into words.  I think about being a kid and watching our local indie wrestling promotion in Portland Oregon when I was a grade school kid.  I was about as naive and repressed as I could get.  I’d lie on my stomach on my parent’s wall-to-wall carpeting watching those pros going at each other.  All sorts of body types; big hairy bears, smooth blonde villains, barefoot jobbers,  etc….  I was mesmerized in a way I didn’t understand.  Almost felt like one of those sadistic villains was applying a stomach claw on me the way my gut would churn.
It was especially the arrogant, dominant heels that had me hypnotized.  Strutting around the ring circling their fallen victim.  Trash-talking the loser and the crowd while the flexed with pride.  So completely pleased with himself, and continuing to beat-down his opponent even after his complete destruction.  There were also times when the hero had had enough and turned the tables. He’d have the heel on his knees in the corner begging for mercy.  Usually the face would hesitate just enough for the heel to get in a low blow or another illegal move and take charge again.
for me, wrestling was a case of desire preceding language.  I knew nothing about sexuality, and had no understanding of why I was responding to those wrestlers the way I was.  I guess among the many reasons I am drawn to wrestling,  the most powerful is domination and submission.  If you mix that with eroticism,  then it’s a home run for me.  Like many of us,  I grew up thinking I was the only guy who had these fantasies.  Starting in grade school wrestling magazines were my only porn. I remember in my 20s, I found an SM wrestling video at my local porn store.  Kid Leopard completely dominating a guy named something like Rusty Beyrs.  I couldn’t believe all those fantasies were being acted out by such a talented, amazing heel.
well, enough of that.  Thanks for mentioning Kid Fresh.  For me he is a pure classic.  Great and sexy in control as well as being dominated.  There isn’t an inch on him that isn’t sexy.  Have we ever seen him naked?
