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', with creme being a euphemism for semen.
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. Twink is used both as a neutral descriptor, which can be compared with bear, and as a pejorative. ' Twink' is gay slang for a man who is usually (but not always) in his late teens to twenties whose traits may include a slim to average physique, a youthful appearance, little or no body hair, flamboyancy, and general physical attractiveness. Gay slang for an attractive youthful male This model, photographed for a twink-themed series, is a typical embodiment of the twink visual archetype
