The erotic in sports
By: Allen Guttmann.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Sports -- Psychological aspects; Erotica; Sexual excitement
Description: In The Erotic in Sports, Allen Guttmann illuminates a topic commonly hidden in the shadows, drawing upon literature, art, modern mass media, and traditional historical sources to describe and comment upon its importance across nearly three millennia of Western history.

Investigating aesthetic ideals that romanticize the lithe, agile fencer at one historical moment and the massively muscled football player at another, surveying ancient legends and products of pop culture, Guttmann's groundbreaking work uncovers a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have celebrated, glorified, censured, and denied the erotic aspects of sports.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-232) and index.