In regards to the term, Driver's epistemology finds that it is 'a young, white, and performed masculinity that can be fetishized, consumed. History ĭue to its suspected origins, the term has been accused of relying on ' ageist and racist tropes of youth and white desirability' by Susan Driver. The definition of twink has broadened, and qualifiers (such as muscle or femme) narrow the meaning to a more specific type of twink. Cream is among the well-known food-related euphemistic terms for semen. 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'. Īnother possible origin of the term may be a derivation from the American snack cake Twinkie, commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food.
Oxford Dictionaries claims twink has origins in the 1970s. Some trace its first appearance to 1963, although 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' '. The exact origins of the term twink are disputed.
