Contact sports (such as boxing, hockey, rugby, and American football) are
parodies of manhood, and atavistic, anachronistic, sadomasochistic, barbaric
bacchanalia, which create the euphoria of victory, machismo, and fun, and the
sickness of injury, disability, and pain. The euphoria of victory, machismo, and
fun, and the sickness of injury, disability, and pain, are polar opposites, which
reinforce each other: the euphoria blinds you to the sickness; and the sickness
makes you crave the euphoria. Ironically, contact sports create and aggravate
the very sickness they seem to cure.

Competing interests:
None declared