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About 20 underclassmen on the Holmdel, New Jersey, high school football team played 'Twister' in the nude while about a dozen senior players "egged them on" and photographed them with a video tape camera, says the Asbury Park New Jersey Press.

Twister, for the benefit of those who don't know any more about heterosexual homosexuality than I do, is depicted by the Press as a game played on a vinyl mat about 4-1/2 ft. by 5-1/2 ft. Players spin an arrow and place their hands and feet on corresponding dots painted on the mat. This, says the Press, "usually results in awkward body positions." Mmmmm.

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The idea of playing this game in the nude is the product of some anonymous and fervid homosexual imagination.

Only one copy of the videotape exists, Superintendent Timothy Brennan believes. Among those who have seen it are members of the Board of Education, who met in private session to watch it.

Understandably, none of the five members of the Board who were contacted by the Press would comment. Nor would a spokeswoman for the Booster Club, nor five senior players called by the Press, nor the athletic director, nor the coach, who was put on six months' probation.

But what could they say? The videotape speaks for itself. The boys simply wanted to see and be seen in the nude. It was as close to homosexuality as they dared get at the time.

The superintendent did make one remark that suggests that he understands what is going on here. He cited "the potential of something like this to spill over into something more dangerous."

The players gave the nude all-male frolic a heterosexual cover by making what the Press calls "sexually explicit remarks aimed at particular female students they knew."

As punishment, about a dozen senior players "will be required to perform some type of school service, such as working in the library," says the Press. While there they might look for a good book on homosexual desire.

Moreover, all 85 members of the school's football teams will have to participate in group counseling sessions with CPC Mental Health Services, Inc. The Press does not say whether CPC's areas of expertise include repressed homosexuality.