Who or what, in your youth, cemented your "type" ?

Then, as well as now.

I grew up around blue collar outdoorsy types so that's what my type is. Has to build or create something /physical/ or I can't be attracted to him.

God, George Michael.

I don't really have a type, but I remember having a huge crush on my tight-bodied, blonde swim teacher when I was about 6 years old, so that's probably why I always notice the blondes to this day.

I've always loved the look of dark swarthy men. From the time I was little and my mother loved old movies, looking at Tyrone Power hypnotized me. Later I watched an old Gidget movie and fell in love with James Darren. And there was Bernardo in West Side Story, so George Chakiris. That type has been consistent forever although like R3, George Michael.

Zac Efron

In grade school I had a crush on a pretty Italian boy with brown skin, great black hair, and huge hazel eyes that I could not stop looking at. I still love tanned pretty guys with longish hair.

Joshua Morrow was the main crush of my youth though. I hated when my mom and grandmother watched soaps, but I saw Josh on TV one fateful day in the mid 90s and that was it. You gotta have nice lips like Josh.

When I was a teen, a friend of mine grew into a hotly built rugby player. He had cheekbones and jawline to die for, and ridiculously stacked up luscious muscles that he would readily show off. Really preppy and hot... but a mess. I had a crush on him for many years (so did my whole town) and did a lot of chasing of that "type". I realized in my 30s it was leading me nowhere except to unhappiness, and felt lucky to recognize I was getting attention from smart professional guys with collage degrees and/or plenty of life experience so I should just acknowledge and be grateful for that instead.

Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle. I wanted him so badly. Didn't even know I was gay back then

Dark brown hair, mid 30s and a hairy chest usually were the common traits in my 1st few crushes

Kevin Costner in No way out was the poster boy for my type

In the mid to late 80s an older boy in HS who looked like porn star Damien who I would discover in 1992, except Damien is Latino and my crush is Portuguese. Much like Damien he's gay and I admit to stalking him on FB every now and then.

I had neighbor boys who were Latino and that has forever influenced my ideal

I was 11 years old and The Flying Nun was on each week. I became fixed on Alejandro Rey. He continues to be my absolute favorite type.

Men in shorts. Rugby players, runners, basketball players before they switched to those hideous baggy shorts. I became obsessed with a man’s thighs and calves, especially when they were muscular and well shaped. I’d always watch men sit down so that I could see what their thighs looked like when they sat down. I still use that as a litmus test to see if a man has nice legs.

I never had a type per se, but a fondness for certain features: dark hair, hairy, overly developed thighs and forearms, either long hair or very close-cropped, prominent noses, sharp jawlines. A great smile and sense of humour go a long way too to attract me. Probably easier to say there are a just a couple "types" I don't find attractive. I suppose I'm easy.

[quote] In grade school I had a crush on a pretty Italian boy with brown skin, great black hair, and huge hazel eyes that I could not stop looking at. I still love tanned pretty guys with longish hair.

...R7 went to school with Ralph Macchio?

Rob Lowe in Masquerade.

Perfection.

I think this thread had evolved into a "first guy with whom you were romantically infatuated" theme.

Pretty much this.

Well look at R8 with all her fancy collage artist suitors.

lol r16 he did look very much like Ralph! Except his eyes were the most beautiful hazel ever

You're sharp, R20. But you're mean!

I had this poster on my bedroom wall when I was 10.

Burt Reynolds in his nude layout.

My mom went to school with the guy in the OP’s picture.

She said he was nice. I think the body is way overdone, waxed and chiseled. I like a more natural look.

As a youth I owned a large stash of Playgirls and my clear favourite was Mr. Woody Parker of Dec. 1974. I call it the "flared nostril" look.

Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Mark Forest, et al. in sword and sandal flicks on TV. To this day, a huge bare male chest and loins wrapped in a peplum get me hot.

Joaquin Phoenix in films like Swingers, Buffalo Soldiers, Signs, Gladiator, Quills. Little did I know I was doomed to fall for swarthy psycho bottoms with deep-set eyes and daddy issues.

Call me R28

I went to an all boys prep school. So the preppy - frat type became my type without even knowing it. I also grew up on country music and Westerns movies and television shows - so I love a good country boy- not too skinny or fat- and quiet. I like a quiet man. And finally Bert Ward as Robin and Robert Conrad turned me - so I like small guys that you can carry over your shoulders.

Extra credit bonus points for preppy guys... Gals too.

When I was about 10-11 seeing hot tanned construction workers outside wearing workboots, faded cutoffs and no shirts. I wanted to lick the sweat off their hairy chests. That type still gets me hot.

R29

Jan Michael Vincent in "The World's Greatest Athlete"

His name was Palo. We were both in the Legislative Youth Program. He was a few years older than I: very cute, dark curly hair, dreamy eyes.

My cousin - I had to stay with him and his family when my mother had one of her "turns" - actually, she was severely mentally ill, but it had to be hidden away.

How can I describe him?

Short - he was about 5 ft 6 .

Shiny jet black hair parted in the middle, sapphire blue eyes. Pale, pale white skin. No freckles. Big Roman nose

I watched as he became a man (he was slightly older than me)

His body went from skinny nothing to smooth muscles - with a jet black treasure trail and a tiny bit of hair between his defined pecs. His legs, muscled and hairy, were a thing of wonder,

We had each other - flip&flop. Many times - over several years

Even his wife even knew that we were FBs - he was absolutely open about it (I was Best Man at his wedding) - and, yes, we fucked the night before his wedding

We both knew it was the last time...forever.

He's been gone now for 15 years - cancer is a bitch.

Billy Gray from Father Knows Best.

Christ some of you had late sexual awakenings. Mine was Prince Eric when I was eight.

Nothing can touch Jim Brown in Playgirl. Or him in anything.

I grew up sexually molested at an orphanage, so I tend to go for a bodyguard. I’m 6’2” with a muscular build, so finding a guy taller and brawnier isn’t always easy.

Col Farrell in Bally K. I loved everything about him. My mother said she realised I was gay when she watched me watching him. I loved his restless soul kind of bad boy.I imagined racing against him along the beach. He always won. I've always gone for dark haired Irish guys.

I never had a type as for who to fuck or date or fall in love with. But walking around life, I was attracted to tall guys like myself (6'2" by Jr year), with long legs and beautiful quadriceps. I liked long fingers and was flipped out by guys with low hanging balls and a big showy dick was exciting too.

Another type I liked were wise-asses, smartalecks, sarcastic types, who liked to have fun, be a bit dangerous, and had sexy grins and bright eyes.

I saw "Goldfinger" at a Saturday matinee when I was 12 and was smitten by Sean Connery.

rob lows's cleft chin. I saw him on the cover of a mag and was in love. I found men with cleft chins sexy for years and years.

A ripped shirtless guy I saw from the window of my dad's car, who gave me an erection at age 4 or 5. He gave me an appreciation for muscles, most of all pecs.

My 7th grade English teacher, who had an unbelievable bubble butt, and who, despite being cute overall, taught me that a bubble butt overrides all other physical traits.

r20 beat me to the découpage joke!

Rod Taylor.

Saw him in “The Time Machine” in 1960.

Sticky, muscular, hairy. Beautiful butt.

Closeted me joined his fan club. Heard he had men on the side and drank way too much. But I didn’t care.

My ideal man.

Dreams......

“Sticky”....

Meant stocky.

(Thiugh sticky is what I’d get just thinking about him...)

I saw Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute in 1975 when I was 8 or 9, and the dark hair, eyes and strong chin and jaw of Josef Köstlinger as Tamino made a huge impression on me.

Sicilian friend from 14-18. Hot body with great skin. Turned into my type of Latin men.

Driving home from the airport one day with my family, I had one of those honest-to-go slow motion moments (I know, MARY!). There was a hitchhiker, about 18, sun bleached, long curly/tousled hair, unbuttoned plaid shirt blown open in the wind to reveal well defined chest and abs, wide smile, pert nose and 80s tight jeans. I can still see him today as the image is seared into my brain.

I don’t have a single exclusive type, but I gravitate to a few specifics. I blame:

-Archie Andrews (dorky redheads)

-Zack Morris (obvious reasons!)

-Brewer twins and 90s-era porn model Chance

Charlie Hunnam in Queer as Folk. The 90s-early 2000s was a great time for pretty young blond twinks of my generation.

Al Green circa 1972. I saw him on the Midnight Special. That man could sing.

Oh and it’s not a sexual crush, but I was born in 1978 and grew up watching Olivia Newton-John in Grease. Good Sandy stole my heart, and Betty Cooper cemented it!

Michael Ontkean - first on The Rookies, then in Slap Shot. He defined an entire subset of guys...

OP, that guy is beautiful.

Peter Lupus and his big muscle tits.

My best friend in high school was a hopefully straight and beautiful black jock. His dick was legendarily huge (he would flash it at parties as a parlor game but I never looked... it was like choosing not to stare at the sun) and he was a year round athlete (football, wrestling, baseball). There were times my attraction to him felt like it would actually undo me. Torture for 4 years. Since then, black men do it to me. Yet my partner is white. So the denial continues.

So what I understand from this thread is that many of you have as a "type" extremely handsome musclemen.

How unlike everyone else!

I’m generally not attracted to straight guys at all, but I have harbored a terrible crush on a straight friend who has both baited me and berated me for it for almost 15 years. I get little crushes on guys who remind me of him from time to time, but my attraction to him is more due to who he is than his appearance. The only other straight guys I even know are colleagues.

Um what am I, chopped liver, R61?

Imprinting. I love freckled redheads. Always have.

Archie over the bodybuilder every day!

R7: Joshua Morrow has gotten too scruffy but when he was clean-cut and I was on the cusp of manhood (circa 1996-1997), he drove me crazy. He then appeared in that television movie My Stepson, My Lover. It was almost more than I could stand.

A female schoolmate's half-brother came to live with her family, and I first got a glimpse of him at our high school. To a ginger like me, his brown eyes and dark hair seemed impossibly exotic, and his late-70s Angel's Flight outfits exaggerated every hot thing about him. I tried to talk to him, and was uncharacteristically speechless.

Preppy twinks - thanks for sending me to boarding school, mom and dad.

Paul Walker in Pleasantville and She's All That.

And then I went to college in a small town and this was the mid-00s so I really should outgrow my desire for "broski" types who smash beer cans on their foreheads and call me "bro" or "buddy", even if they're still closeted and are mean to me in public.

In my early twenties I was obsessed with the whole masc4masc thing and it was a big identity crisis because I am small, effete, and a solid 6 on a good day, so I am happy to at least be mostly over that bullshit.

Barry Gibb's hairy chest made me hot for any guy with hairy body

I was always more interested in my good looking teachers in high school.

Still into older daddy types today.

As I watched old movies I couldn't understand why Cary Grant was such a hot guy to women. He had a terrible build. Skinny. Skinny arms, hihs shoulders were, like nothing, he was aw ful. I always like muscular guys just not overly muscular.

As a little tyke: Woody Strode

As a youth: Blair Underwood

As an elder: Daniel Sunjata

Andy Gibb, I like a guy with longish feathered hair and a hairy chest. In my teen years I then like Jon Bon Jovi and Kip Winger. My first love looked like that and my current boyfriend does too.

What cemented my type?

A big log and a knowing gaze from a young veteran of the Hollywood trenches. I wanted to know what Johnny Crawford clearly knew and enjoyed.

R74, thanks for the Kip Winger shout-out. He was soooooo cute in a way the other metal guys weren't. And Andy Gibb's bare hairy chest kicked off puberty for me......

When I read the title of the thread I immediately thought of Miles. Then I scrolled down and the OP posted the pic. I would also say Sam Jones and Greg Evigan.

Barry Gibb, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, Burt Reynolds

Dark hair, hairy chest, facial hair. My type in the late 80s!

Sam Jones to Jimmy Garapollo - tall, dark and handsome.

I was so fucking in love with Sam Jones

This.

ah Eddie is a good choice - tall dark and handsome that movie was great because of him

r79 me also and it's too bad that type is not in style now

[quote]Andy Gibb, I like a guy with longish feathered hair and a hairy chest. In my teen years I then like Jon Bon Jovi and Kip Winger. My first love looked like that and my current boyfriend does too.

Kip Winger always makes me think of Stewart from [italic]Beavis and Butt-Head[/italic], the likelihood that he was the most likely gay or gay-coded male character on the show, and the now-settled feud over the show using them as a symbol of uncoolness.

This thread is why we need more diversity of race etc in media representation.

Or you could just post a colored guy R86

R87 you're missing the point.

I think many of us imprint on the types that we first noticed early in puberty. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, where most of the guys were Appalachian or black, and was taken by my Dad to grindhouse theatres to watch trashy B movies. So I liked guys like Fred Williamson, or the Vint brothers (Alan and Jesse).

....

Rick Nelson. Dreamy. Eyelashes for days. 😋

Sears underwear models.

Me. I've always been attracted to guys who have dark hair, are slim, and look Irish-Jewish-Italian and are from NY/NJ. Like me.

Since I grew up in the late '50s and the '60s there were lots of westerns on TV. Most of the actors who played the cowboys aroused me even before I could have an orgasm. I wanted to spank and fuck Michael Landon, Robert Conrad, James Arness, Richard Boone or Chuck Conners among numerous others. Otherwise I tended to like the blue collar types in their 30s or so. Preferences evolve though so what I may have liked then might not necessarily hold true now. I do like a cowboy who moans "OWWWWWWWWWW"when he gets a good swat on his ass. Uniforms turn me on too. Ever since I can remember alot of mail men have turned me on.

Robert Conrad's pants were so tight on Wild Wild West it rarely left anything to the imagination - cock and ass bulging, as God intended.

The rockers in the 70s unashamedly presented their bulges through tight clothing.

Ohhhhh the good old days of bulges and VPL galore.

V P L. 😋

All the guys on my dad's softball team, circa 1976-1979. They were beefy, hairy, and unapologetically masculine. And they were nice to me. My dad was an ass, and this was the first time men were nice to me.

John Allen Nelson on Santa Barbara.

And I bet you were nice to them in return, R97!

We're in for a grim future.

I don't have a type anymore. Or, my type is handsome mins.

I don't have a "type" anymore either as I find it limiting, but Quantum Leap came out when I was 12/13 and there were a lot of shirtless scenes in that show of Scott Bakula in all his hairy-chested glory.

I'd still do him, too. He has aged nicely.

I thought John Stamos was sex on a stick for a long time. Maybe still. He's also aged well.

I went to college in Southern California so, yeah, lean surfer types like this guy always get me going.

For a generation of Eldergays, it was this that did it.

I swear to all my various Gods I met a boy possessed by a Fae or a demigod when I was 17, and of course I worshipped him accordingly. He was slender with elegant hands, hair like gold and skin like cream and beestung lips. He had a voice like butter. He was tall & strong but also delicate like a young tree. He had an elfin smile and a mind quick & fluid as mercury. Everyone ate from his palms and he laughed at them for it. In the John Hughes vein, “I died for him”.

Then we graduated, parted ways and the supernatural force left him. Per his social media pics he became a Breeder and the sublime light left him. He works as an overweight accountant husfrau now and I avoid his city diligently, but in any crowd my eye is still drawn first to thin lovely twinks with gold in their hair and louche shaggy grace and a wicked way of laughing...

Beefy rugby players at school. Bubble butts for miles. I’ve never fucked a twink in my life.

r97 Did you ever see any of them in those little short shorts guys wore back then?

Softball short shorts, r108?

Blue eyes, dark hair. Every time.

I grew up working class with a side of Cuban ,so beefy,hairy masculine men have always been what I was drawn to. My favorites were the ones who werent pretty boys,but just oozed masculine confidence. The men of the 60s and 70s were truly a special breed,chest hair and bulge for days!

r109 Not during the softball games but just in general guys would ware those during that era when it was warm/hot.

Still trying to get "type cementing."

Scott Madsen R105. HAF. H.A.F.

Same here R106. Not just any twink. But ones with a certain “shaggy grace” as you describe. I totally get it as ridiculous and lovely as your post is haha.

First boy I noticed being sexy did not cement a type in me. He was a fast maturing athletic stocky stupid but charming horse hung handsome polish boy who was my best friend for about a year.

Though I'm substanially younger...James Dean and Elvis in King Creole.

r94, did you ever see Hollywood Blue with the notorious Chuck Connors performance?

Is R116 Dan Aykroyd?

r118, no I never heard of Hollywood Blue. When Chuck Connors made The Rifleman in the early 1960s all I know is that I needed smelling salts to see his generous basket and ass in those tight jeans they put him in even when I was about 10 years old. I was jealous of his TV son Mark having that kind of daddy all to himself. Maybe someone would care to elaborate on Hollywood Blue. I guess in real life Chuck Conners and Johnny Crawford were quite good friends. He often went to his house to read lines with him and I think was also friends with Chuck Conners' sons. Have heard that CC went both ways.

I don't know if that gay porn film Connors made is online or not. Google it. He played a sailor servicing a marine. My understanding is he did quite a bit of porn.