Twink, you're it!
Keeping up with the whole thing of the categories that gay men have, there's the twink.
A "twink" is usually considered a homosexual male with attractive, boyish qualities. Typically from the ages of 18-25, and often thought as a young, white, fashionable male.
Most likely a term coined from the snack cake "Twinkie"; a pretty, yellow cake with a thick cream filling, and most importantly, nearly phallic in shape.
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Apparently a highly sought after member of the menagerie (well, according to that video and a cursory search through the porn tubes), the twink seems to have a very limited shelf life (when you turn twenty six, you're done?) and has to have very specific physical attributes. I for one, am unmoved. Even though gay porn has a specific category award for the twink (yes, they award Best Twink in the Oscars of porn) and whole studios are launched to cater to the men who like them (CockyBoys, Helix, the lot). I kind of don't see the appeal yet. Maybe I'll see it when I'm older than dirt? Maybe I'd see the appeal if I did not tend to be an ectomorph? Maybe is it because I do tend to enjoy beefy men over thirty better? Who the hell knows?
It's not their body type, mind you. I have been known to thoroughly enjoy long-legged men who are on the trim side before. I really like long, lean fuck machines. I think it may be the age constraint, because I do find men between 18-25 to be most times staggeringly self-obsessed and mostly uninterested in the world around them and within themselves. That, of course being a totally impressionistic opinion, because I have to deal with them day in day out. To each his own, right? But I do think Michael Henry perfectly (and hysterically!) nails the impossible standards and the silly vacuousness that plague the gay menagerie in its hopeless attempt to make us fit into narrow definitions. But we are not alone. Even the New York Times and The Atlantic have published stories about the straight version of the twink. Apparently the buck does not stop here, Timothée.
So yeah. The twink. That's a whole different can of worms. Now, if you excuse me, me and my jockstrap need to get to Target's curbside pickup. I have got to get some chapstick before the dom top mafia starts prowling the streets.
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I'm an ex twink for sure. I have no idea what I'm classified as now? And don't start me with the Chapstick.
ReplyDeleteSame!
DeleteAnd I cannot be a Twunk because I don't do weights or became a hunk.
LOL chapstick!!
XOXO
IMHO, for what it’s worth, I think the appeal may have to do with the yearning of youth. And for some of us, the desire for something we’ve never had: a lean tight body.
ReplyDeleteThen there’s the whole daddy vibe going on. The step-son videos and what not.
I’m sure there have been tons of studies done to analyze the psyche of the gay male in relation to this phenomenon.
But I have to admit, I do like them on the lean side. 😘
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Ha!
DeleteYou do like 'em on the lean side. And those step-son videos are kinda hot?
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I have never been a twink fan, even when I was one. I prefer my men with a little beef on'em, not too much, and all in the right places.
ReplyDeleteI feel you.
DeleteI have always gone for the beef. And the beefy.
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Labels suck. We seem to have this need to put labels on everything, don't we? Me? I was never a twink - I've known lots of them, of course, because of what I did in my younger days. If you prefer men over 30, try Legend Men. Lloyd knows how to pick 'em. xoxo
ReplyDeleteOh, labeling seems to be a national sport in Gayland.
DeleteAnd I've seen Legend Men's output. Yes, Lloyd does know how to pick them... Alex Mecum and Zeb Atlas did solos for him...
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Twinks are gentle and, from my experience, not manly but more feminine. But yeah, labels shouldn't really exist, no point in that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess twinks are frozen in that in-between young men and men. Not a boy, not yet a man, paraphrasing BritBrit?
DeleteLabels suck.
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I was a twink. I was a kept twink until I aged out at 29. Starting over from scratch (no home no car) at 30 sucked!
ReplyDeleteHeh
DeleteI feel you. And what you wrote may sound funny but it's a reality for many gay men. Many.
XOXO
I never followed labels, I always found that stupid. I like what I like. I'm not into Twinks, I prefer more masculine guys. The only twink porn I find hot is a twink being worked on by a masculine guy or jock. I like the contrast in body types with that porn. Fortunately I like many different types.
ReplyDeleteMaddie is proof that gay life can still be fabulous after 25! Hahaha!
Labels are too constraining.
DeleteAnd Twinks being worked over by a bigger man is hot. I think that's why I like MormonBoiz so much! LOL
Contrasts in porn are so very hot.
And Maddie and I were commiserating about it just a few comments above!
XOXO
never been a twink, but I have been always looking younger than my real age!
ReplyDeleteI was never really a twink but I was twink-adjacent. And same. Have always looked younger than my age. That has been both a blessing and a hindrance.
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That video is hilarious!
ReplyDeleteOMG I was literally howling the whole time.
DeleteEspecially when the DomTopMafia appears. The musical special effects are hysterical.
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I don't know what the attraction is? No facial hair, no body hair, nothing you could even call a physique, if they want, they can give a call in fifteen years when the finally grow up.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to agree with you here, Dave. I know, shocking. BUT (and it's a big but) I do like marked secondary sexual characteristics in my men.
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I think you nailed it with the fact that it is men between 18-25. Most of us were hot messes during those ages and basically still idiots. I think the rumor/urban myth I keep hearing is that our frontal lobes are fully developed until 25. It would explain a lot about me. Take care. Hope the Target pickup went well.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes.
DeleteMost men are really yummy (and less dumb) after thirty. Before that, many are just overgrown kids with out of control Ids and a half-formed Ego.
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