"Long before the movies sullied the cowoy by casting him as an anti-hero,sadist, sodomite and homosexual, the pornogrpahers found that here was a ready-made sex symbol--a man's man with all the equipment to satisfiul the desire a nd differences of readers and audiences.

Clifford Westermeier in "The Cowboy and the Sea" (in the Cowboy: Six Shooters, Songs and SEx, ed. Charles W Harris and Buck Rainy, Norman: University of Oklahama Press, 1976 101) From the m ostly useless Chris Packard's Queer Cowboys