It takes ten years to produce a top sportsman, he will start as a child looking cute in his kit and progress through puberty and into manhood wearing state of the art sportswear for his sport. As he becomes professional our sportsman's sportswear becomes his working clothes, be it speedos, cycle skin-suits, or a football uniform. His body become a working tool set that he will improve through training. I have seen young professional soccer players from the local team wearing wearing kit just to go to the shops to get snacks, it seems to be the policy to keep them in shorts during training days.
The concentration required by sport will place eroticism in the back of the mind, and the game in the front.
In an apparently heterosexual training squad there is no room to tell other boys or men how sexy they look in their kit, such feeling have to be repressed and replayed auto-erotically alone at home and never admitted.
Pro team players don't tend to come out until they are ready to retire the rewards and penalties are too great to do otherwise, and the wrestler although he may be all over his opponent's body, cannot afford to be seen to be aroused by the crowd.
That the press and supporters find sportsmen to be sexually exciting is without question, raunchy TV series like Footballer's Wives go to prove it.
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