title: Jocks: True Stories of America's Gay Male Athletes
author:  Dan Woog 
description: Over two dozen personal profiles of high school and college coaches and athletes succinctly and sensitively dispute the contention that "gay jock" is an oxymoron. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Most Dangerous Gay
   
  Part 1: The Jock Hunter
   
   
  My job was to hunt the jocks.
   
  I sauntered into the steamy sauna, a warm, damp towel draped over my
  shoulders. Sitting in the corner of the sauna, I saw my target that I’d been
  grooming for weeks.
   
  His name was Mason. Even now in his hunched over stature, breathing out
  deeply, his back muscles bulged and knotted under his tight tan skin as the
  sweat rolled off him. He was perfect.
   
  I bit my lip as I stepped over next to him. I’d like to say I wasn’t nervous, but
  that would be a lie. Even though I was a veteran Hunter for The Ranch off I-
  75, there were some guys—certain guys that still made me nervous.
   
  Mason was one of them. Even sneaking peeks right now at his magnificent
  form set giddy chills up my spine. I could literally feel myself putting him on
  a pedestal.
   
  Taking in a deep breath as I sat down in the sauna next to him on the warm
  bench, I steeled myself and remembered my training.
   
  He was a chiseled young man, no old