Meaning of twinkdom | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being a twink.

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Examples

“Coordinate term: beardom”

“Maybe it’s the turning 25 and forever-bidding adieu to twinkdom, but nothing lasts forever.”

“God, that period of my life-- Mikey and I were separated, and I clung desperately to the last⟳ vestiges of twinkdom: knee-high tube socks, wife beaters, and that goddamned bottle-opener necklace, declaring my obvious devotion to the bar scene.”

“So whilst the rejection of twinkdom and the prioritisation of youth in gay culture, which was part of bear⟳ culture's development, is replaced with a positive celebration and eroticisation of maturity in bear⟳ porn, […]”

“He was less of a twink than Kris—and Kris suspected twink was basically Rayne’s type⟳—but that wasn’t a fair comparison. Kris was like⟳, the Platonic ideal of twinkdom.”

“Twinkdom is also a short-lived phase of life; time is the twink’s ontological threat.”

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