(On the social and sexual lives of gay men, with photos, so not to everyone’s taste. Almost surely not to Facebook’s taste.)
Recent Facebook conversation, initiated by poster J1:
First time being called “Daddy” while playing with a guy at a bar. Bittersweet!
With a response from J2:
Yeah, I can see the bittersweet part, for sure. Heh. I remember you as a total twink.
And from me:
Ah, those days. For me, it was papacito from a cute server at a Mexican restaurant. I was charmed.
daddy here is the name of a social identity, a gay “type” (like twink, bear, muscle-hunk, or leatherman); and by extension, of a subculture of men of this type; and by a different extension, of a role or relationship between men, between an older and a younger man. Such identities, subcultures, and roles can intersect and combine, as here:
