YouTube Video Mendenhall Humps Roethlisberger Draws Varying Comments

(Rating: NC-17) Rashard Mendenhall, the Pittsburgh Steelers best running back, decided to dry-hump his teammate and QB Ben Roethlisberger toward the end of Sunday's AFC Championship game against the New York Jets. If you've not seen the video, here's my version, asking for your comments, which have been posted on the YouTube video:



While the reason for Mendenhall action, which has went viral on the Internet (it's still on Google Trends and has been since Sunday evening) and on YouTube, and has not yet been publicly explained, many have offered comments on it and at Vloggerheads.com and YouTube.

Here's a sample:

Now you know how it feels Roethlisberger
CMCCvideos 2 hours ago


i think tosh from tosh.o dressed up as mendenhall for that play
50redraider 2 minutes ago


the ref runs over to try and get a closer look
slamshrk31 29 minutes ago


People seriously did stuff like that on my high school football team lmao. I wouldn't call this proof that he's gay, this is just what happens when you have a bunch of huge guys with testosterone bleeding out of their eyeballs lol.
edAVP1138 14 hours ago


LOLOLOL, I don't believe he is gay. Just having a little to much fun. I just hope he doesn't do that in the locker room, then for sure he is gay.
fieldx200 2 hours ago


@fieldx200 Exactly. He's just messin' around.
cwarren 1 hour ago

In a way, the variation in reactions shows what American society is willing to tolerate in 2011; the bar is much higher.  It may be due to the constant daily presentation of sex and sexual images in mainstream online platforms.

It's hard to find a good, definitive study on this, and most of what's out there focuses on how men react to women, and if not that then porn.  But the middle ground: the constant presentation of ideas and lifestyles associated with sex - from sex tapes to sex scandals, racy celeb photos, sex issues, and Gay and Lesbian sexuality - and its impact isn't studied, or if it is, the study's not widely known.

But it's an important matter that deserves serious consideration and conversation.  It should not be buried. Advances in communications technology are presenting a giant social mirror.  The question is what will we see next and can we handle what we see?