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Originally Posted by blankall
Based on conversations I've had with guys who played college level basketball, hockey, and baseball it's pretty common. I agree with you, in that I just don't get the desire to do it. They did things like that fairly regularly based on how frequently guys on these teams would tell me about it.
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Yeah, from just having played high school and college sports I am not surprised at any of this. Competitive team sports cultures are fertile ground for testosterone-driven domination behaviors, whether it's humiliating people through hazing or it's stories/acts of sexual conquests. Lots of pretty nasty behavior is condoned, fostered, or turned a blind eye to in competitive sports. I'm not aware of anyone who I played with ever doing something like what's described here, but it wouldn't shock me to find out a couple of guys who I'd been on teams with over the years had done this kind of stuff. It's a context where you find a decent number of guys whose whole sense of self worth comes from physical exploits that show their dominance over others, and no shortage of them are pretty dumb and emotionally stunted.