El Santo

Say it with me now: Masked, Badass, Mexican.

His name is El Santo, the guy in the silver mask (el Enmascarado de Plato) and he’s not only THE most famous Mexican Wrestler ever, but he’s also the sexiest man New York women have never seen.
 
What lady in her right mind would turn down a 195 pound Latin badass?

Don’t let the mask stop you, we’ve all done something kinky before, and some of us out there have even liked it.  I’m not sayin you’ve all hiked up your skirt on the F train before, but there’s definitely a lady or two I’ve known who has enjoyed sex with a little mystery.  And as far as costumes go, it’s a no brainer.  Everybody likes dressing up a certain way for that extra spark in their mojo.

El Santo somehow managed to parlay his brand of pimpin’ into a career.  His obsession with wrestling became a love of fighting for what was right.  One that lasted his lifetime and when it stopped so too did he.

El Santo was nothing typical, ladies, he was quite simply a cultural phenomenon.  In a time when Mexican pop culture was missing it’s own Batman or Dick Tracy, El Santo was a Mexican version of a big dude (big by Mexican standards, he was 5’9”) fighting for good.  In a country as convoluted and complicated as Mexico, the key to Santo’s popularity was his symbolism as a fighter for justice.
 
Though beautiful in stature El Santo only looked nice, he was a “crudo”, a dirty fighter, in the ring.  The combination of fly clothes and sho’ nuff ass whoopins has long done well to arouse many a woman’s appetite. El Santo’s career exploded at exactly the right time and place in an almost simultaneous public climax.  Lucha Libre, the wrestling federation in Mexico, very similar to America’s World Wrestling Entertainment, rose to popularity mostly because of guys like El Santo.
 
Within two years of donning his silver mask, El Santo became a cultural phenomenon.  His 48 year career included 52 films, 11 championship belts, a successful comic book line, and an action figure deal with a major Mexican toy company. All this hardcore pimpin’ came at a time before multi-entreprenurial celebrities like 50 Cent and J.LO were even around to complain about.

Crucial to the mystery selling the man was that El Santo never took his mask off, even in public.  Though the women begged and pleaded, Santo realized the center of his potency was his secret identity and in 48 years of wrestling he was never photographed without the upstairs jimmy hat.  He would often wear two masks during fights, take secret airline flights, and made a mask with a chinstrap so he could eat with it on and still be photographed at dinner parties.  Now ladies, how awesome are you looking, showing up at a black tie affair with your man wearing a wrestling mask? This was no sissy actor playing Santo, this was a man who became the character.  How’s that for method acting?
  
Now I must address the sexual prowess of one Señor Santo.  Not as a former lover, but as a simple hetero dude, man enough to admit that the spirit of El Santo was one of strength, passion, and of course shining silver spectacle.  We should all hope to be as astonishing a giver as what this man gave every time he got in the ring.  El Santo was a Man’s Man.  An obvious dedicated lover.  Focused on his partner, he takes what he wants, albeit with agility. With a subtle fetishness, Santo likes his women as women.  Don’t worry, he’s the type of man that would jump through a window for you, hell, he does that anyway for fun.

There are people out there who just exude who they are, it pours out of their skin in pints.  We smell it in the air, and approach, thirsty.

Sometimes you can’t control the intensity of your mojo and who wants you.  When was the last time you had great sex that was politely organized and asked for?   Nothing turns me off more than someone asking for permission, that kind of stuff you just have to take.
Santo was a nimble taker, working with a love for performance and exhibitionism that few can understand let alone do.  At 65, after his fourth Farewell Match, El Santo acknowledged his deteriorating body and went into retirement in 1982.
 
In 1984 El Santo appeared on the Mexican talk show Contrapunto and unexpectedly unmasked for the first time publicly on national TV.  He was 67 and underneath the mask was Rudolfo Guzman Huerta, a simple worn old man.  El Santo was el corazon de vida for the man named Rudolfo and without this persona he had no more energy for life.  Guzman died two weeks later of a heart attack.

However, his son is still around ladies, and he has a successful career wrestling as El Hijo Del Santo.  Which just goes to show, true love, will always find a way to carry on.