Freshmen magazine came out around the same time I graduated college, and at the time they were primarily featuring models from Bel Ami (e.g., Lucas Ridgeston, Johan Paulik, Dano Sulik, Ion Davidov, etc.) Prior to that I had never thought much of anything one way or another about Eastern Europe--to me it was just an insignificant region on a map--suddenly it looked like a paradise of beautiful, rosy-cheeked, sexually liberated young men.
These guys are almost painfully good-looking. It also pains me that most of them identify as straight. (It galls me that straight guys can have more/better gay sex than I will ever dream of having with guys who are way out of my league.) Finally, it pains me that although I was once that young, I was never that good-looking--I could never have been one of them.
I may be wrong, but it seems like the "twink" look began in the early '90s with Freshmen and Bel Ami; it also seems to have been through these publications that I and many other gay men discovered the beauty of uncut cock.
In recent years there seems to have been somewhat of a backlash against the "twink" look, both in real life and in porn. I can't tell you how many times I've heard guys on this forum and guy's in real like state with contempt "I'm not into twinks" and to ask "where are the men?" The implication is that if you like twinks you either like men who are inappropriately younger than you, and/or that you lack mature, sophisticated taste in men. It's gotten bad enough that I'm almost afraid/ashamed to admit that I like looking at twinks.
Well, I'll admit it here. I like looking at twinks. But my taste is porn is not limited to twinks--far from it. Also, I wouldn't want to date a twink. I'm too old for them and they're too young for me. I have rather different tastes when it comes to the type of guy I'd like to date.
And I must say that after a while, all those Eastern European boys start to look alike. I stopped watching that kind of porn a long time ago because it felt like I'd seen it all before.
Can someone explain to me why there's so much porn--both gay and straight--coming out of Eastern Europe and why so much of it features twinks? Also, can someone explain to me why a lot of this porn is centered around various fetish themes like rape, incest, or other situations that pair pretty young guys with "mature" men and women? Unlike American MILF porn, which features attractive older women, the mature women (and men) in Eastern European porn are often fat and/or ugly.