Jocks 2: Coming Out to Play by Dan Woog | PopMatters
Coming Out to Play by Dan Woog
Tweet Athletic Identities? “The body dies; the body’s beauty lives.” Wallace Stevens, “Peter Quince at the Clavier”
“Straight acting”—it’s a feeling, and a phrase, repeated often in Dan Woog’s Jocks 2. It’s also used in the real world. When looking through most men-for-men personals. it will be listed as a desirable, if not mandatory, quality in many of the ads. Straight-acting, as in “athletic-looking and acting.” Mention athlete and you’ll also hear the term “jock.” Jock is a loaded word. Most athletes are imbued with a near hyper-masculinity.Jocks 2Dan WoogComing Out to Play(Alyson Publications)Amazon The gay athlete became a recurring theme in gay pornography from the earliest Physique Pictorial magazines to Freshman Tailz 2002. The “man’s man”—the jock—is not only physically and sexually attractive, but socially attractive as well. Jocks have an air of popularity. High school and college society idolizes the athlete. Woog points out that most gay men feel they are on the outside, perhaps because of the overwhelming influence of the athlete stereotype as a desirable quality.
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