Mask Porn

In Mexican Lucha Libre photos, the wrestlers are often seen posing together in wrestling masks.  They may be Tag Team partners in identical gear, or they may be enemies locked in a hold or a homo-erotic stare-down.  I call this sort of image a Mask-to-Mask.

The focus of these erotic images is always on the gorgeous, colorful wrestling masks, with bright lights highlighting the sparkle and beauty of the masks.  Physical proximity or actual contact between the wrestlers is also common, their faces pressing close together or even touching.

The scene in a Mask-to-Mask is staged to appear vivid and sexually charged.  Check out this comic book cover of two flexing musclemen, a chinless mask exposing the teeth as their tense muscles prepare to entangle.  WHEW!

When the Mask-to-Mask involves identical or very similar gear, we see the merging of their identities together, like a married couple.  Both wrestlers  surrender their individual identities by covering their faces.  The fact that the colors of their masks and other gear are matching will further indicate that the two have become one when they press together in the Mask-to-Mask pose.

Before the term “in the closet” became popular for describing a homosexual who was not “out,” gay men had described their secretive lifestyle as “wearing a mask.”  The idea was that, in our hetero world, a homosexual must don a straight mask to hide his sexual orientation.

The implication in a Mask-to-Mask photo is that both partners are “wearing the mask” — their homo-sexual relationship concealed by the masks.  Only when they’re alone together may they strip off the straight masks and reveal themselves to each other.

Or am I perhaps reading too much into these Mask-to-Mask photos?  Sometimes a mask is just a mask.  Do you see the sex appeal  in their poses — their chins exposed, mouths open or lips pursed in a pout, eyes locked together or locked on us, tight spandex stretched across their skin?  Is anyone else feeling the heat or am I just weird?

I think the frequency of Mask-to-Mask images proves that numerous wrestling fans must be sensing the eroticism and enjoying the photos.  The wrestlers would not go to the expense of buying identical gear if there was little appreciation or excitement from the audience.

Mask-to-Mask photos are so common on the Lucha Libre websites, which further evidence of the wide appeal of the Masked Twins pose-down fetish.  The photographers wouldn’t waste the time to set up these poses, placing the masked men in just the right positions, if they didn’t have the sense that somebody somewhere would be getting off on it.  Otherwise, why bother?

I suppose if you’re turned on by any one thing, having two of that item placed side-by-side is twice as appealing.

Another common variation of the Mask-to-Mask pose is to have two partners press their faces together, thereby ramping up the feeling of intimacy in the scene, the spandex rubbing against the other man’s spandex.  In the above photo, the design around their eyes forms a single, cohesive Batman logo when their faces are in contact, another reference to the merging of the two men into one symbiotic relationship.

I can’t be the only person whose gaydar is pinging off the charts at these Mask-to-Mask partner pose-down photos…