Often people also assign specific stereotypes to twinks. People can look way older or way younger than they are, so the twink age bracket is daft. We know guys who self-define as twinks and they’re 30. Some have called the whole twink ‘genre’ racist and ageist, and they have good cause. This kind of definition is obviously extremely narrow, and leaves out people of colour, bigger guys and anyone over 25 that still looks much younger than they are (lucky them). Related: Man arrested for having ‘twink’ images on his computer (HTC) Twinks are often presented in porn as white/caucasian (we’ll come to how that is incredibly problematic later), and they range from about 16 to 25. Obviously this varies depending on who you ask, but a broad definition a twink is thin, smaller-built, and pretty smooth with little or no body hair. What is the physical definition of a twink? Now guys are more often than ever split into ‘tribes.’ One of the most desired and derided of which is, twinks. This has become magnified on social media and ‘dating’ apps like Grindr, which comes with a whole bunch of it’s own problems, for example, making users sad. But where the scene has grown, it has also split.
