MAN ON MAN

MAN ON MAN, 2011

"There is no sport more romantic than wrestling. It's not the smack of leotard on rubber, nor the giddy thrill of seeing two go mankini-o-mankini in ancient contest – or rather, in a nineteenth century approximation of what ancient contest might have looked like, which is what Greco-Roman wrestling is. No, it's the sheer aphrodisiacal quality of it all."

Illustration for the MARINA HYDE column. Guardian Sport backpage.