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Many experts believe the groupie subculture flourished as professional sports became ever bigger as a business. Athletes now expect pampering off the court or field as long as they perform well on it. The notion that athletic prowess and sexual attraction go together reaches down to every budding jock who swaggered across a junior high schoolyard. Colleges routinely line up young campus beauties to orient athletically talented freshmen who have signed letters of intent. And the sexual mystique of the college sports hero lives on. Says Bill Little, sports information director at the University of Texas at Austin: "When...
There is virtually no end to the examples of Harvard's prowess...
...virus has already claimed the young, the old, the famous: symbols of Hollywood like Rock Hudson, symbols of youth such as 18-year-old Ryan White, even symbols of athletic prowess like the All-Pro former Washington Redskin Jerry Smith. Yet Magic is perhaps the first celebrity to come out instantly to admit to his condition, and unprompted. And he is certainly the most famous: even people with no interest in basketball recognize his name and smile. In addition, because he would not discuss how he might have contracted the disease but only implied it was from heterosexual contact...
Because some men have been repulsed since sixth or seventh grade, when they first heard a peer "brag about his sexual prowess" and discuss pornography. Some men have tried, to the best of their ability, to treat women as women and also as equals...
...were freshmen in high school at all all-boys' school, and although I was taller than many of the guys in my class, I was quiet, reserved and never discussed girls' body parts. Or my sexual prowess. These two classmates were flaming heterosexuals and took great pride in their explicit descriptions of their sexual conquests...