Washington Times Equates Co-Ed Wrestling With Sexual Perversion

In his Washington Times op-ed from March 2, R. Emmett Tyrell Jr. equated co-ed wrestling in high schools with frottage, the act of getting pleasure from “rubbing his fully clothed groin area against someone else... generally in a public place.”

From the op-ed:

A frotteur is someone - usually male - who takes aberrant pleasure in rubbing his fully clothed groin area against someone else - usually female - generally in a public place, say a subway, perhaps a funeral parlor. The frotteur is a pretty weird duck. The word is obviously French in derivation, and it unsurprisingly has an arty origin. Frottage is “the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “as a point of departure for a work of art.”

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The Times reports that as many as 6,000 young girls are competing in high school wrestling, many in competition with boys because their states have no girls' category. There are 270,000 boys, presumably all in boys' events. So if a frotteur learns at an early age that he or she is inclined toward frottage, he or she will want to try out for the boys' wrestling team. Or perhaps just attend a match and simply watch. Many wrestling matches are conducted in darkened gymnasiums with but four spotlights over the mat.

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A rather eloquent statement that - perhaps he had in mind what happened in Vermont, where Miss Hale “kept the boy subdued on his hands and knees, then flipped on his belly,” reports the Times, rather excitedly, I would say. “Both wrestlers were 103 pounds of leverage and intent. She hooked her leg tightly around his, flattening his hips toward the mat, trying to turn him on his back and pin his shoulders, careful not to let him score decisive points by escaping or reversing positions or pinning her.” As I say, a frotteur might have a good time just sitting in the audience.