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Twink and bear has a long history. > The word eromenos describes an adolescent boy who is the passive (or ‘receptive’, ‘subordinate’) partner in a homosexual r
by barry-cotter 5y ago
Twink and bear has a long history.
> The word eromenos describes an adolescent boy who is the passive (or ‘receptive’, ‘subordinate’) partner in a homosexual relationship (usually between males), opposite to the word erastes (to love, the older and active partner) in Ancient Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eromenos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eromenos
- foldr 5y ago‘Twink’ doesn’t really connote a passive role though (you can be a twink and a top). Similarly for ‘bear’. Twinks can also be post-adolescent. So I don’t think ‘twink’ and ‘bear’ are very good translations of these terms, which are based on quite a different conception of gay relationships than the one we have now.
- barry-cotter 5y agoHappy to concede that it's more vague gesturing at "Look, a similar thing was happening 3,000 years ago and is happening today" than the same thing but it's not like it's unrecognisable.
- foldr 5y agoI wouldn’t connect gay ‘tribes’ with sex between adolescents and adults. Twinks aren’t canonically underage or in relationships with older men.