Allegations of group sex, akin to those we expect to hear about on Four Corners tonight, have surfaced intermittently in recent years. In the descriptions of these events, the key point seems to be the opportunity for the boys on the team to engage in a sexual activity together with the woman involved a sort of incidental prop. The players are not necessarily ‘gay’, or repressed ‘gay’, but there is something about there sexual orientations that seems to involve ‘participation’ with other men. There seems more than a whiff of homoeroticism involved. The code often uses the buffed, chiseled physiques of the players in their marketing efforts. Officially, this no doubt reflects the code’s pursuit of the female consumer. But you have to wonder.
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2 Comments
About 15 years ago, as a student journalist, I wrote a feature trying to answer the same question as I found the same elements used in the promotion of the game were prominent back then. Long story short, it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck … but it’s also possible that when one looks at the issue through latte-tinged glasses it all just looks a bit gay.
As it happens, I was also playing rugby league at the time for my university.
It was an odd moment indeed when my team-mates discovered that their third-grade front rower was also one of those freaks who ran the student newspaper …
FWIW, another interesting meditation on homo eroticism can be found in the HBO show ‘Generation Kill’, which chronicles the activities of marines in Gulf War II. Even they wonder, after a while, why it is they spend weeks at a time calling one another gay and exhorting one another to do various things to one another’s testicles.
I’ve always thought rugby was a bit gay (I am female). The males in rugby are not my type; too beefy/too brutish looking, and the whole culture reeks of testosterone.