Stroke for Stroke

Ethan Slade vs Corey "Badger Boy" Turner, Catalog 12 - The Muscle Boys Get Nasty (MuscleBoy Wrestling)

Strokes outnumber strikes in this dreamy encounter in MuscleBoy's fight space. There's not much actual competition to be seen, but there are a number of positions and gestures that suggest competitive wrestling, allowing viewers to tack their favorite scenarios onto them. The action plays out like wrestling in slow motion - emphasizing the erotics of fighting while playing down its brutality, the way an underwater match might.

To be sure, there's material here for a wrestling fantasy or two or three - collar and elbow lockups, throws, headlocks, lifts and carries, crotch grabs, body punches, inside cradles, scissors, crab holds, and plenty of sensual groping along the way. Most of the fondling is of the palm-flattened-to-the-torso variety described in new age books as therapeutic touch. The action is frisky enough that by the quarter mark both wrestlers' bulges demand that they shed some gear, which they do until both are down to nothing but armbands and boots.

Badger Boy is unusually composed, no doubt under slim and handsome Ethan's spell. I do miss Corey's usual pugnacity. In previous matches, he projected a boisterous impetuosity, befitting his spirit animal - the honey badger, the "Chuck Norris of the Animal Kingdom." Ethan, too, has projected a rougher persona in previous matches, but, like Corey, he seems under a spell. The snuggles and nudges verge on without tipping over into actual combat, not my preference yet I can't help but envy the pair. The entwining of their slim bodies is a treat for the eyes.


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