This article continues yesterday’s review of my new favorite Tumblr site: Dirty Old School Wrestling. Even the name of the site gets a reaction from me, let alone all the incredible images of pro wrestling posted there! Whoever is running the site has great taste in wrestling action, I must say.
The DOSW site began two weeks ago with a series of Ab Stretches and Arm Bars, but has moved on to many other classic moves including Scissors, Body-Slams, Biting, Boots & Stomping, and general Trunks Appreciation. Check it out.
What gallery featuring Arm-Bars would be complete without some Brad Armstrong. It may be the only hold he knew, he used it so much. I was fine with that because as he was twisting on Arm-Bar after Arm-Bar, I could be fixating on his spandex.
The DOSW Tumblr site definitely does not skimp on the erotic wrestling artwork, which is right up my alley.
I can’t exactly explain why these particular photos shared on the DOSW site totally intrigue me, making me want to scroll through and see ALL of them.
I get it that some of these photos are very old — some not even in color. For me, that’s why they’re hot. I understand that some of the wrestlers are over-weight, or balding, or hairy unlike today’s swole Underwear Model style of wrestler. For me, that’s also why they’re hot.
I guess the wrestling I grew up on, the sleazy, violent rasslin’ that took itself very seriously, has left a strong impression on me. The reason so many of DOSW’s images make me stop and stare at them is because they remind me of that era and how I felt watching 0ld school wrestling.
I think a part of me understood, even as a child, that I should not be watching these violent, nearly naked Real Men grip and grapple each other. It was inappropriate for me — I sensed it was dirty and sexual.
So wrestling was my forbidden fruit, the flame that attracted me like a moth, the irresistible drug that spiked the pleasure center in my brain.
So to this day, when I see images or old videos that remind me of my earliest exposure to pro wrestling, I still feel a twinge of that curiosity, anxiety, and excitement that had over-whelmed me.
I am triggered by laced up boots, dad bods in stretchy spandex, illegal cheating, muscles, unnecessary acts of brutality, hair pulling, expressions of suffering, long-held wrestling holds, cruel Heels, honest and hard-working Baby-Faces, white gear, trunks with stars or stripes on them, and long legs. I am guessing the DOSW blogger has many of the same triggers. The reason I’m digging his posts so much is because he references all the triggers I’ve listed in the images he posts.
Another theme that I see on the DOSW Tumblr is the old Veteran vs. Rookie scenario. This is a common motif found in Bazotter’s drawings which are plentiful on DOSW website.
The obvious sub-text of this sort of match is the potential rape or molestation of the attractive, desirable young victim by the older horn-dog. After all, wrestling is just a hand slip away from fore-play, and they are both nearly naked already.
The DOSW site and Bazotter’s drawings focus on the older veteran, the beefy Dad persona, as the object of our attraction rather than the younger victim. I believe many wrestling fans tend to fixate on the gorgeous young victim and his suffering instead of the old grizzly bear inflicting the pain. It is definitely striking a nerve for me to see the many images posted on DOSW that turn my attention to the powerful Heel.
See how they stretch toward each other, straining in the spandex, the younger man yearning to make contact and entangle just as their arms are entangled. His attraction to the dominant Dad figure is revealed.
Here is an image by another great artist — I forget his name — showing some ethnic stud in yellow bikini dominating his white victim.
When I watched wrestling as a youngster, I wondered how the wrestlers avoided getting aroused. After all, I’d have a raging boner just watching them in their trunks and thinking about being in the ring, so it must be extremely difficult, I imagined, for them to keep it down. I imagined a pill they must take that stops you from getting hard, sort of an anti-Viagra. This artist must have shared my same thoughts, depicting what happens when the jobber forgot to take his No Boner pill.
Don’t change a thing, fellas. Don’t try to lose weight. Don’t shave anything. Definitely don’t put on a body-suit or long pants.
Just keep celebrating your manliness and flaunting your big strong body. Keep wearing classic trunks and boots and applying Arm-Bars and other old school holds. Keep it up and I will keep on downloading your photos, and writing about how great they are, and getting off to them.
And to the Dirty Old School Wrestling Tumblr, don’t stop now. You got me hooked. I am really vibing on your work and want to see your entire collection of great old pro wrestling images. You are not posting too many per day, don’t worry.