DS-118 Making The Team
Making the Team
Driveshaft Library
DS-118
Stu Chadwick
$3.95
Making the Team
Driveshaft Library
DS-118
Stu Chadwick
$3.95
Foreword
“…homoerotic activity has been widely and powerfully defined as aberrant (though, as Kinsey has suggested, about half American males have had homosexual activity, while at least a third have had experiences culminating in orgasm). Much guilt and uncertainty must plague many of the participants in these relationships,” says Lionel Tiger in MEN IN GROUPS.
And what about this guilt if the homoerotic relationship has been tinged with incest? Wouldn’t it tend to be even greater?
“You won’t find it anywhere in psychiatric literature,” says Paula Burnett in a Playgirl article entitled “Incest” by Jeremy J. Young, “but, increasingly, we are seeing cases of incest between… father and son. It really blows people away.”
The following novel is a story of homosexuality and how it affects the lives of two different kinds of people: those who find it relatively easy to come out of their closets, and those who find it next to impossible to do so.
It is the story of a homosexual attraction existing but suppressed between Mark and Stan Rendal, father and son. An attraction which can only again be brought out of the darkness and into the light by the catalyst of athletic and socially prominent Alex Crandorn. For Mark Rendal, attracted to Alex as he has been attracted to no one except his son, feels his facade of heterosexual stability suddenly beginning to crumble around him. And Mark, feeling threatened by Alex’s blatant admission of homosexuality, battles consciously to preserve his own straight image, while his subconscious strives instead to free, once and for all, those hidden needs and desires eating away at Mark’s guts.
Read, then, of Breakridge University and the happenings in its Greek Row—a section of residential district wherein fraternities vie for the best jocks and the most monied membership; where Stan Rendal, pledged to Alpha Nu Omega, finds his very college career and fraternity life threatened not because of his and his father’s latent homosexuality but because of Mark Rendal’s refusal to docilely accept the homosexuality of Alex Crandorn.
“At many universities including the great universities—with students coming from a wide range on the scale—the fraternities play an important role…” says Vance Packard in THE STATUS SEEKERS.
For both Mark and Stan Rendal, Stan’s acceptance at Breakridge and in Alpha Nu Omega is a step upward socially—a foothold that neither of them really wants to lose. Is Mark willing to risk his and his son’s future by continuing on with his hypocritical masquerade, or will he, instead, succumb to rediscovering his homosexuality and the pleasures to be had from it?
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