[Byron]

Most interesting to read your reflections kumu - I can only agree and life is indeed a mystery.
How can a guy possibly believe he is not making a sexual statement if he has a great body and dresses as you describe for all to see (with pleasure for the likes of you and me).
You know of a football quarterback and it would be most interesting to hear also from a rugby player on this forum. If you look at their developed bodies and tight kit as they are today they are a lot different from a team of twenty years ago. Not only that, their after-match horseplay can be quite homoerotic (and not to forget the French calendar for Les Dieux du Stade
and their sideline employment in some instances as male models).

Many will say the sexual inferences in all of this mean nothing to them in the enjoyment of their camararderie - yet on the other hand we have had not so long back the CAPTAIN of the Welsh National Rugby Team coming out as gay after being conventional for many years of his life as a married man.

So, what can we understand from all this apparent confusion ? - perhaps try not to put a label on any of it and just enjoy whatever comes along amongst
the myriad ways in which human nature expresses itself.