Second email:

I met a guy on craigslist who wants to learn wrestling moves/holds/basics. He never wrestled before. Age: 35, professional, etc. I said that's all cool.

I like the idea of going through wrestling moves like that totally nude. I think it focuses male genitals-energy on the activity of wrestling.

Practicing and learning/teaching wrestling moves nude, makes a male very aware of his sexuality, as well as that of his training partner/opponent.

I believe that that sexuality is what makes a guy wrestle in the first place.

THAT is why the Greeks wrestled naked. They wanted to experience full male-ness.

I really like that idea. (Some people don't, and I accept that.) I have a friend who thinks it's crazy. We argue about it all the time.

Anyway this guy I met on craigslist relates to that totally. (I think a LOT of guys do.)

Bill Weintraub

Re: my first shirtless wrestling opponent

10-14-09

Thanks NW.

Guys -- for those of you who don't know Naked Wrestler, aka NW, he's a guy who has wrestled and trained in mixed martial arts, and who has many very important posts on our Man2Man Alliance sites, including:

aggression and the beauty of guys;

The Warrior Male;

to be One with the Man I wrestle;

Forced Hetero-sexualization and the death of Man Space;

Full Mount Fight;

Becoming ONE in the FIGHT: The Intimacy of Aggression;

Fighting and Freedom;

our American forced Hetero-sexualized society;

Fighting is part of the Human Condition;

Men being Men;

The Masculine Male;

The Weight Room;

Wrestling Rides -- Get to know your man;

Hip Control in Pankration.

The MAN Area II

MAN SPACE;

MANBALLS;

the Man area;

balls and the man;

Fighting is good;

Freeballing is good;

Fighting is Man. Man is Good;

MANPHOBIA -- Fired for being into UFC;

balls against balls;

Fighting is Man;

The Ultimate in Man to Man; and

Cockfuckin Man to Man.

Plus replies to many posts, including

touching penises when hugging; and

Go Shirtless: In support of a brother!!

So NW, as we often call him, has a large body of very important work on our site, and I encourage you to read his writing.

And to train, as he has, in Fight Sport.

In his first email, NW said,

Not wrestling in high school is one of the biggest regrets of my life.

Far too many of us have those sorts of regrets.

I wanted to box when I was in junior high.

Instead, I didn't start training in karate till I was 34.

It was life-changing.

But not the same deal as doing it at 14.

I hope young people who may see these lines will understand that if they want to box or wrestle or train in a martial art -- they should.

Now.

While they're young.

In NW's second email he said:

I met a guy on craigslist who wants to learn wrestling moves/holds/basics. He never wrestled before. Age: 35, professional, etc. I said that's all cool.

I like the idea of going through wrestling moves like that totally nude. I think it focuses male genitals-energy on the activity of wrestling.

Practicing and learning/teaching wrestling moves nude, makes a male very aware of his sexuality, as well as that of his training partner/opponent.

I believe that that sexuality is what makes a guy wrestle in the first place.

THAT is why the Greeks wrestled naked. They wanted to experience full male-ness.

Exactly!

Everything you say, NW, about the relationship between wrestling and male sexuality is right.

I really like that idea. (Some people don't, and I accept that.) I have a friend who thinks it's crazy. We argue about it all the time.

Yeah -- your friend's wrong.

I know who you're talking about, and he's one of those gay-identified males who thinks that buttsex is fine and dandy, but wrestling nude is "crazy."

He has it completely and utterly ass-backwards, doesn't he?

Buttsex is crazy.

Buttsex is UNnatural.

Wrestling nude is -- normal.

And Natural.

That's why Men all over the world wrestle nude.

And have for millenia.

Anyway this guy I met on craigslist relates to that totally. (I think a LOT of guys do.)

Right.

ALL guys relate to it.

Just like ALL guys in ancient Greece wrestled and fought naked.

Not complicated.

But in our society, it's made complicated by forced hetero-sexualization, as you so rightly point out, and our bizarre religious beliefs, which are truly toxic.

Some people manage, nevertheless, to see through heterosexualization, and to fight off the bizarre religious beliefs which were usually forced into their tiny skulls when they were little kids.

The great American author Flannery O'Connor has said, rightly, that "Children are cursed with believing."

But it's also, as I've said, a matter of what you believe.

The Greeks believed that three of their major Gods -- Zeus, Poseidon, and Apollo -- had male lovers.

As did a host of lesser deities, such as Herakles.

And that one of those lovers, Ganymedes, was given immortality on Olympos.

Pausanias (5.7.10) says the gods competed at Olympia in mythical times, and presumably they competed nude, since both gods and heroes, like Herakles and Theseus, spent most of their time nude.

So what many of us need to do is reshape our beliefs -- so that they serve our lives.

That's what NW has done.

He rid himself of the destructive religious strictures of his childhood.

He didn't wrestle in high school, but he did in college.

And then he resumed wrestling as an adult; and then trained in mixed martial arts.

At the same time freeing himself of the yokes of sexual orientation and the "gay community."

NW has become a true and visionary Fighter.

For himself, and for his fellow Men.

He's a true Warrior.

How bout you bro?

Do you still remember the first guy you wrestled with your shirt off?

Or were you too scared to even do that much?

And are you still afraid?

Afraid to come out, afraid to face the analists, afraid to Fight --

even when it's for your own Life?

And will you go on being afraid until the false peace of the grave has extinguished that one sweet and precious life?

I often use that phrase -- "one sweet precious life" -- because that's all you've got.

How much of that life have you wasted -- in waiting?

It's time bro.

Time to FIGHT BACK.

Time to SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Bill Weintraub

October 14, 2009

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