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Sporno: where sports meets porn (NSFW)

notnotnotfred

July 11, 2014

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http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2010/04/17/sporno/

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Title	Sporno: where sports meets porn (NSFW)
Author	notnotnotfred
Upvotes	0
Comments	3
Date	July 11, 2014 2:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2afhdw/sporno_where_sports_meets_porn_nsfw/
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[–]sillymod 1 point2 points3 points 12 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

[–]notnotnotfred[S] 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

It discussed sexualization / idealization of male body, and pressure on male athletes to appeal to gay viewers for $$. It was a piece linked in the Prince Fielders article.

In fact, the Dieux du Stade calendars were originally part of a marketing plan to update and widen the appeal of French rugby, particularly for women, and have proved massively popular: the 2007 calendar reportedly sold 200,000 copies. But the sporno-graphic eye of Dieux du Stade is quite deliberately, quite flagrantly un-straight. Partly because some of today’s women are being turned on to the voyeuristic charms of male-on-male action (in an echo perhaps of their boyfriends’ interest in female-on-female action), partly because it gets attention – ‘whatarethoseguysdoing!’, and partly because, as we’ve seen, the adoration of gay men is the key to the successful marketing of the male body.

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Being found desirable by gay men, once a source of ridicule by others and even violent anger from the desired, now seems to mean you are worthy not just of love but also of large amounts of cash.

[–]sillymod 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link