Twin Fetish: The Shocking Exploitation of the Identical Batten Brothers
These images are clipped from a 1980's wrestle-porn magazine article about the Batten Twins, a brother Tag Team who were not the most famous or successful performers, but who have quite a following among gay wrestling enthusiasts. (I'm sure the magazine editor was aware of that when he gave them this big spread.)
I confess I've always had man-crushes (or is it one man-crush?) on the Batten Twins with their fleshy dad-bods, reliably skimpy matching trunks, and their sexually performative antics in the ring. I've blogged about them many times over the years.
The whole identical twin thing was kinda hot, although I don't think I have a Twin Fetish. By covertly trading places in the ring, they're playing off the old urban legend where identical twins trade places during sex to experience each other's fuck buddy.
The purpose of these fluff pieces in the old wrestling magazines was to turn us on to the Eye-Candy of the Month. They'd post multiple beefcake poses and action photos of the studs in the ring, paired with glowing text and captions (using terms like: "sturdy", "gutsy", "grit", "determination") in praise of their awesomeness. They were dick-teasing us, trying to turn us on so we would tune in or buy tickets to see more of these studs in action.
They had to know when they printed this softcore gay porn that a good many of us would develop fanboy crushes as a result. Well that was my experience anyway.