I feel like marching band is a highly sexualized culture (former band geek, checking in), and I wish I understood why that is.
Because high school is a highly sexualized culture? Plus coed plus travel plus long hours plus one teacher foe a shitton of students.
See also: swimming and theater. theater partially mitigated by noncompatible orientation at times. Swimming by smaller group.
Yeah, I can see that. I was in theater too (and like every other club because I had this weird idea I'd never get into college without them) and band was SO much more sexual than any of the others for me. I'm sure it's exactly as you're describing. Also, as a young kid, you're forced into an environment with older kids right off the bat, so you learn a lot, quickly.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."