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What is a twink?We all know what twinks are surely? Really? I entered the question into my search engine exactly as it is written and the surprising answer I received had something to do with gaming, war-craft and hair. (Twink: a character from the Nintendo 64 game Paper Mario. Twinking: a role playing team game. Twink (home perm) a British brand of hair product…) Not what I was expecting. Not to say there is not British Twinks. So I went to my on-line encyclopaedia for a gay definition before I started putting down my own theories and thoughts. So, gay slang has Twink defined as an attractive and young looking gay man, usually in his late teens or early twenties. He should have a slender build, no body hair and usually no facial hair either. In the old days this kind of guy would have been called a ‘Chicken’ and the men who pursued him ‘Chicken hawks’, so if you recognise those terms then you will know where we are coming from with ‘Twink’. Originally the term was only applied to guys who were blonde but now it seems that it has spread and the term Twink refers to any guy in the right age and look categories that has whatever coloured hair he fancies. Indeed, they don’t even have to be Caucasian to be called a twink now. That sets the scene but there are other uses of the word Twink. You can use it in a derogatory way and insinuate that the guy in question is rather vacuous, empty headed or vain, which isn’t very nice but is better than several other words I could think of. You can also adapt your Twink to sub-categorise him further: Examples, butch twink, femme twink, muscle twink, Euro twink and so on. It really just separates out the category of guys from others so on many sites you will see genres, or categories, of content such as: bears, amateurs, studs, hunks, Twinks and so on. Whether you agree with categorising guys like this or not the fact is that adult sites do and so we are now left with a situation where boys get put into groups according to age/looks. I thought it might be fun to see if there was a progression of phases of life for us gay bois and so I came up with this: Teen 18 to 19 years old Also called Bois or Boyz, starting out on gay life I could go on but I just wanted to show you where Twinks fitted in. Of course the ages here are arbitrary, you can’t be a twink if you are 40 but you could be a hunk at 19 I guess. I’ll leave it up to you do think about that one. Meanwhile if you want to see twinks in action you really are spoiled for choice. There are hundreds, probably thousands of sites out there that feature twinks. Simply enter the word in your search engine to see what I mean. In my search I entered ‘Twink Gay’ and got 640,000 things to check out, widening my search to ‘Twink’ only and there were over nine million – so, if you are going on the hunt for twinks the make your search as specific as possible: for example “twink gay sex” resulted in only 262,000 links. Only! |
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