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Twink
Twink is gay slang for a male who is usually in his late teens to twenties whose other traits may include a slim physique, a youthful appearance, and little or no body hair. The age range for twinks is generally considered to be from around 18 to 25 years old. Twink is used both as a neutral descriptor, which can be compared with bear, and as a pejorative.
The exact origins of the term twink are disputed. It may be derived from an older British gay slang term twank, which means: "The quarry of a homosexual prostitute (male); a man willing and ready to become any dominant man's 'partner'".
Another possible origin of the term may be a derivation from the American snack cake Twinkie, commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food. The food is described as "little nutritional value, sweet to the taste, and creme-filled"; by comparison, the young men are described as "short, and blond, and full of creme", with creme being a euphemism for semen.
A backronym has been constructed[by whom?] for twink, according to which it stands for "'teenaged, white, into no kink", although these specified traits are not universally accepted as either necessary or sufficient to classify an individual as a "twink". The gay slang term chicken is considered a British equivalent to twink.
The term twunk, a portmanteau of twink and hunk, customarily refers to an older or more muscular twink.
The first recorded definition of twink appeared in a 1963 article for the journal American Speech, wherein it was likened to the derogatory gay terms pansy, punk, and petunia. Oxford Dictionaries claims twink has origins in the 1970s.
In his book Never Enough (2007), about a murder committed in 2003 in Hong Kong, described by The New York Times Book Review as hard-boiled clichés with a cartoonish first impression, Joe McGinniss describes a court case in which twink was defined as a gay slang term used to denote an attractive, boyish-looking gay man between the ages of 18 and 22, slender and with little or no body hair, often blond, often but not necessarily Caucasian.
The term was derisively used on online message boards to describe YouTuber Cara Cunningham, then known as Chris Cocker, after her video "Leave Britney Alone!" went viral in 2007. It had reached widespread usage in media by 2013, according to Thomas Rogers of The Awl, who pointed as proof to its usages in the television series Girls and Happy Endings and by television personalities JWoww and Andy Cohen, the latter of whom apologized for using it to refer to the boy band One Direction. Rogers also identified various television and film characters of the time, including Maxxie Oliver of Skins, Kurt Hummel of Glee, and Elijah Krantz of Girls, as "more nuanced twink characters" than had previously appeared in media. It has also been used to describe straight male celebrities who are skinny and have a youthful appearance, like Timothée Chalamet and young Leonardo DiCaprio, although some object it to being used to refer to non-gay men.
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Twink
Twink is gay slang for a male who is usually in his late teens to twenties whose other traits may include a slim physique, a youthful appearance, and little or no body hair. The age range for twinks is generally considered to be from around 18 to 25 years old. Twink is used both as a neutral descriptor, which can be compared with bear, and as a pejorative.
The exact origins of the term twink are disputed. It may be derived from an older British gay slang term twank, which means: "The quarry of a homosexual prostitute (male); a man willing and ready to become any dominant man's 'partner'".
Another possible origin of the term may be a derivation from the American snack cake Twinkie, commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food. The food is described as "little nutritional value, sweet to the taste, and creme-filled"; by comparison, the young men are described as "short, and blond, and full of creme", with creme being a euphemism for semen.
A backronym has been constructed[by whom?] for twink, according to which it stands for "'teenaged, white, into no kink", although these specified traits are not universally accepted as either necessary or sufficient to classify an individual as a "twink". The gay slang term chicken is considered a British equivalent to twink.
The term twunk, a portmanteau of twink and hunk, customarily refers to an older or more muscular twink.
The first recorded definition of twink appeared in a 1963 article for the journal American Speech, wherein it was likened to the derogatory gay terms pansy, punk, and petunia. Oxford Dictionaries claims twink has origins in the 1970s.
In his book Never Enough (2007), about a murder committed in 2003 in Hong Kong, described by The New York Times Book Review as hard-boiled clichés with a cartoonish first impression, Joe McGinniss describes a court case in which twink was defined as a gay slang term used to denote an attractive, boyish-looking gay man between the ages of 18 and 22, slender and with little or no body hair, often blond, often but not necessarily Caucasian.
The term was derisively used on online message boards to describe YouTuber Cara Cunningham, then known as Chris Cocker, after her video "Leave Britney Alone!" went viral in 2007. It had reached widespread usage in media by 2013, according to Thomas Rogers of The Awl, who pointed as proof to its usages in the television series Girls and Happy Endings and by television personalities JWoww and Andy Cohen, the latter of whom apologized for using it to refer to the boy band One Direction. Rogers also identified various television and film characters of the time, including Maxxie Oliver of Skins, Kurt Hummel of Glee, and Elijah Krantz of Girls, as "more nuanced twink characters" than had previously appeared in media. It has also been used to describe straight male celebrities who are skinny and have a youthful appearance, like Timothée Chalamet and young Leonardo DiCaprio, although some object it to being used to refer to non-gay men.