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‘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
by 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.