A lot of actors live vicariously through them and almost seem intoxicated, or turned on, by their danger and power.
It's almost a lure to them.
They're probably compensating for something.
Pacino, De Niro, Caan, Vincent and Pesci have all hung out with them.
Jimmy Breslin loved drinking with them.
It's perverse but it's like how some women get turned on by being with bad boys if you want to equate it to a sexual thing.
I have never heard of Pacino hanging out with with the exception of when he met Tom Eboli's brother while filming The Godfather. I don' think De Niro really hangs out with them, or that any of those you mentioned are compensating for anything, and saying it is a sexual thing is very bizarre. You truly need to get off you high horse and stop witch hunting.
