Sex Talk:
Friday,
April 8, 2005
Volume 33,
Issue 14
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
IN THE SGN
SECTION ONE
Front Page
MORE/ALL
SECTION ONE
STORIES
SECTION TW0
Arts & Entertainment
by Simon Shepard |
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| Speaking of Skinny Guys | ||
| Most of us ogle sex objects who, whether buff or bearish, have at least a bit of meat on their bones. But then there are those whose cocks get hard at the sight of guys who are not just lean, but skin-and-bones thin.
So why does boniness give some of us a boner? Part of it may have to do with chronology - theres something about a thin physique that says young or boyish. As one porn maven points out, Youre more likely to see bods that are frankly skinny when you go to a twink website than to one that focuses on more mature men. Then, too, a thin guy looks more vulnerable than a pecs-and-abs gym rat, and any number of men - especially top guys - find that way hot. As one man into slim Jims says, When I see a really skinny fellow, theres something about him that just seems needy. I want to take him home and feed him...and then fuck the hell out of him. And bony boys also possess an androgynous appeal. While female fashion models are often vanishingly thin, masculine usually translates into a fair amount of bulk and beef; guys turned on by boyish and not-so-butch, though, are more likely to gravitate to the underweight. Though many men are into thin, some take their tastes to extremes, stroking off to photos of emaciated fellows. There are even online groups for fanciers of zero-fat bodies, replete with pics of men who are damn near skeletal. Thats where the skinniness fetish can get a little edgy, eroticizing men who look like they have anorexia or AIDS. Theres something unbelievably exciting about the combination of a really big hard-on and hipbones that stick way the hell out, though a thin guy looking enormously endowed may just be a matter of context, says the slim-Jim chaser. But I really crave superthin men with countable ribs, however theyre hung. They look so lithe and elegant. That doesnt mean I think that guys should be starving themselves to death. But lets face it, science tells us that being underweight is less dangerous than having a bearish belly - or taking steroids to bulk up, for that matter. And then theres the actual sex involved. Im pretty husky myself, says a biggish man. But my lovers not, and I totally enjoy being able to wrap my arms around his skinny torso, to put my hands around his really small waist. It feels great to me. And its so cool to be able to lift him up while Im fucking him. And on the other side of the low-weight equation, even the thinnest among us deserve to be desired. I was born thin, Ive always been scrawny, says one 120-pounder, and I enjoy being a sex object. You need not be as negative as one bear who denounces underfed boys into heroin chic to agree that a love for visible ribs and bony shoulders is very much a minority taste among queer men. But theres plenty of room for all sorts of sexual appetites, including a hunger for those who look hungry. And as with any fetish, worrying about the why may seem a bit foolish to those who share the bent. So if some men find matchstick legs a cause for masturbation (and if the objects of their affection are naturally thin, not due to speed use or an eating disorder), well, hey, they simply believe that, as the saying goes, You can never be too rich or too thin. Or at least too skeletal and too sexy. Simon Sheppard is the author of In Deep: Erotic Stories and Kinkorama: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion, and can be reached at SexTalk@qsyndicate.com. Visit Simon at www.simonsheppard.com. |
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 GENERAL GAYETY Leslie Robinson |
 NOT THINKING STRAIGHT Madelyn Arnold |
