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Interestingly, gay men are moving in the opposite direction. The stigma around showing your body in public and online has always been lower for gay men, but the
by kbos87 4y ago
Interestingly, gay men are moving in the opposite direction. The stigma around showing your body in public and online has always been lower for gay men, but there’s been a marked change in the past 5 or so years.
De facto gay nude beaches have become much more popular among younger gay men (I’d posit that they’ve always been popular with older gay men.)
There’s a pretty likely cause of this - I think gay men are completely desensitized to showing their bodies and being seen thanks to platforms like Grindr, OnlyFans, and the rise of the “alt Twitter.” It’s also easier to discover these places through social media where word of mouth was likely how they continued in the past.
- cptcobalt 4y agoI agree, and have seen this, but I think this should be far more normal for more than just gay males. From anecdotal experience, many gay males that share salacious photos of themselves on Twitter (at least where their intent of their account is not only sex/nudity, but to participate in the community of twitter) tend to share healthy and tasteful "thirst traps", semi-nudes, and sometimes nudity. It's rarely "porn" style content, and almost never problematic. And it's also some twitter gays with normal bodies too! That's good. We should celebrate that. That makes twitter the non-ephemeral nude beach.