As the handler puts the dog through its paces, their interaction becomes an indirect display of male prowess, and the animal gradually becomes a surrogate for both men.

Pascal Rioult's Aegisthus had the wild immorality of a Pan, and Donlin Foreman's Agamemnon was a supremely stolid paragon of male prowess.

Stanley D. Walters notes that one is a "reversal of macho male prowess", one a "reversal of female longing" and one is "gender-neutral and universal".

Stamping dances of male prowess.

Traditional football had been an expression of male prowess and village pride sanctioned by custom and loosely supervised by adults.

It all revolves around male prowess and in this case male sexual prowess.

Still, the idea of a torrid affair between the teen-ager from Oak Park, Ill., and the shapely auburn-haired nurse, fits the myth of Hemingway as an icon of male prowess - hunter, drinker, fighter, writer and lover.

At 15 this Tony knows everything about turning tricks in cars on the local roads and about how to project male sexual prowess.

As far as interracial romance is concerned, he says that while many mixed unions are based on love, others are based on what he calls "the myths of black male sexual prowess and white women as the epitome of beauty."

And Snoop Doggy Dogg, the multimillion-selling gangsta rapper, spun fantasies of male prowess with guns and women.