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Defying the expectations of pretty much everyone except himself, his coach Timothy Murphy and fellow Crimson NCAA entrant junior Dan Shevchik, Cole excelled in his typically muted, low-key style...
...think I knew I was homosexual, on some level, but I would never really allow myself to say that about myself. And it surely wasn't a topic for discussion--except in jokes. Basically, I never grew beyond junior high from a psychosexual-development point of view. That was when I began having to really experience my own sexual feelings and was very confused about it. But there were no resources to help me. When I entered the seminary, it was to escape a girl friend who wanted to get married. I figured I'd go in the seminary...
...arriving at my first assignment, walking down the rectory hallway--I don't think I'd been there even a month--and I peered into a mirror. I had my collar on. As I looked, I said to myself, "You're the same as you were a month ago, except now you're a priest." And that was a really big moment, a profound moment. It was trouble...
...FEELING? I can do all of the things I used to do, except that I do them slower...
Kevin Conley's Stud: Adventures in Breeding (Bloomsbury; 224 pages; $24.95) isn't much concerned with races, but it's plenty racy. It probably contains more explicit depictions of the sex act than Fanny Hill. None of these acts involve humans, however, except in an officiating capacity. Conley's subject is Kentucky's exclusive breeding sheds. Because the Jockey Club--which regulates the $34 billion Thoroughbred industry--forbids artificial insemination, Thoroughbreds are made the old-fashioned way. It's a micromanaged, ritualized affair, from the guy (or gal) who lifts up the mare's tail to the fellow who guides...