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bit of muscle or lack of it :)

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  • 14-10-2014 11:42pm
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    jamesr123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭


    I was wondering how others in the gay community feel about lads who are ripped and full of muscle?

    this seems to be a new trend and even in my college a lot of lads are built like the hulk lol. I find it a turn off. i was wondering do others actually like it?

    i'd much prefer skinny ''twinks'' as their known :D


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    Annasopra
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    Its a bit of a trend that everything in the LGBT world has a name/label.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fashion-and-style/10881682/The-metrosexual-is-dead.-Long-live-the-spornosexual.html

    I dont get it but each to their own.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    lucasmaximus
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    Being built like the hulk would generally be a turn off for me too. I do like tone though, a lot, and a reasonably skinny guy can be toned as much as a guy with muscles. Its just the feel and visual of the muscles they have regardless of how big said muscles are. I take each lad on his merits, have never been able to distinguish a 'type' that suits me, I just know who I like when I see them :)


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    BonnieSituation
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    My type seems to centre on a somewhat narcissistic scale... ie. I like beardy boys. :)

    However, I wouldn't say I have a steadfast type, and whilst the guy in the photo as posted above wouldn't be my type, I did go "phwoar" and have a lil moment. Mmmm... *mindwanders*


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    jamesr123
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    i really like the toned, tanned, tall look (now known as the 3 t's lol) rather than the pure muscle thing.. beardy boys? doesnt do anything for me either :(


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    BonnieSituation
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    Why sad?


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    ongarboy
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    I imagine those reality shows (TOWIE, Tallafornia etc) contribute along with the general metrosexual beautification of men that is currently in vogue. The one unfortunate time I tuned into Tallafornia, it seemed all the guys had orange skin and were taking steroids based on the circumference of their biceps!

    When I lived in the US, such guys were known as Muscle Marys!:)

    I like toned, muscular but still slim guys but not particularly attracted to those super buff types.

    Only a select minority of guys in the scene and elsewhere fit the description OP describes. There are equal numbers of skinny boys, obese guys and everything in between also. Long live diversity!


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    BonnieSituation
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    ongarboy wrote: »
    I imagine those reality shows (TOWIE, Tallafornia etc) contribute along with the general metrosexual beautification of men that is currently in vogue. The one unfortunate time I tuned into Tallafornia, it seemed all the guys had orange skin and were taking steroids based on the circumference of their biceps!

    When I lived in the US, such guys were known as Muscle Marys!:)

    I like toned, muscular but still slim guys but not particularly attracted to those super buff types.

    Only a select minority of guys in the scene and elsewhere fit the description OP describes. There are equal numbers of skinny boys, obese guys and everything in between also. Long live diversity!

    Diversity ... And cute boys! :)


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    L1011
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Its a bit of a trend that everything in the LGBT world has a name/label.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fashion-and-style/10881682/The-metrosexual-is-dead.-Long-live-the-spornosexual.html

    I dont get it but each to their own.

    There's also the "twunk", Mark Simpson's names deal more with heterosexual-but-very-hard-to-tell men.


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    Annasopra
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    MYOB wrote: »
    There's also the "twunk", Mark Simpson's names deal more with heterosexual-but-very-hard-to-tell men.

    I actually cant keep up with all the ever changing cultural terminology

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Aard
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    I actually cant keep up with all the ever changing cultural terminology

    Bloody quiltbags.


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    Annasopra
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    Aard wrote: »
    Bloody quiltbags.

    QUILTBAGPIPE ;-)

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    BonnieSituation
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    *whoosh*


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    Bobby42
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    Have to say I do love boys with nice muscles. :)


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    gazzer
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    Nice well built man with muscles and loads of tattoos will always do it for me.


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    jobbridge4life
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    Muscle culture has been a thing in gay communities internationally for ages. I've always wondered why it was so slow coming to Ireland but over the last two years I have noticed a significant change. For the better I feel.


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