The sport of oil wrestling dates back to the Turks' exodus from Central Asia in the middle ages.

Turkey's oil wrestlers are generally described as burly men who cover themselves in olive oil and grapple with each other wearing leather trousers. A typical Turkish Oil Wrestling match consists of the wrestlers, their muscles rippling in olive oil under the hot sun, try to pin each other to the ground.

Even going so far as putting a hand down the opponent's trousers to get a better grip is a common tactic. Well I guess too many VERY appreciative, extra feminine homosexual men have been coming down to watch the shows and the oil wrestlers are seeing this as a problem that needs to be addressed.

Homosexual men in Turkey enjoy the oil wrestling so much in fact that they are holding an Internet contest giving away tickets to their huge oil wrestling championship in July. Sadly, instead of recognizing that the gay community is their fan base and has been for years, the oil wrestlers are fighting to exclude this particular group of homosexuals from watching the shows.

Homosexual men, I personally suspect, have always been their most supportive fan base, even if they weren’t always so “out” about it.

Can you tell me with a straight face that you think oil wrestling has been a well kept secret from the Turkish gay community for all these years? I am willing to bet that gay Muslims haven’t been regulars at oil wrestling shows from the beginning. To argue that they haven’t is like trying to say that pedophiles haven’t been locked into those middle America, trailer park Jon Benet child beauty pageants since their inception.

A group calling themselves “Bears of Turkey” is advertising on the Internet for a tour to watch the 639th Kirkpinar oil wrestling championships to be held on July 1 and 2. Now these men, who earn their living tussling around with other men half naked covered in oil find that they are a little uncomfortable with the idea of Kevin Spacey and his gang of “straight” buddies coming down to watch their “talent”.