We brought you the hottest dad bods currently steaming up Instagram, but judging by your comments, there is confusion over what exactly a dad bod is, so here’s our attempt to clarify.
According to blogger Mackenzie Pearson, who coined the term in her post Why Girls Love A Dad Bod, it is “a nice balance between a beer gut and working out.”
“The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time,’” Pearson says “It’s not an overweight guy, but it isn’t one with washboard abs, either.”
Related: “Do I Have A ‘Dad Bod?’” Find Out In Four Easy Steps
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Of course, there are as many types of bodies as we have types (thank god for that!), so for your edification, we have compiled a list of definitions and examples of the ten most common types of male body types…
Dad bod
Lumbersexual
A man who likes feels the need to hold on to some outdoor based ruggedness, thus opting to maintain a neatly-trimmed beard.
Twink
Under the age of 22 or so, slender, with little to no body or facial hair.
Twunk
Similar to a twink but much more muscular and maybe a tad older.
Bear
Larger, usually more heavy than muscular, very stereotypically masculine; must be over the age of 35.
Cub
Would be a bear if he were over the age of 35.
Spornosexual
Good-looking, sex- and body-obsessed with a high disposable income and who lives in an urban area; the 21st century version of a metrosexual.
Otter
Thin or athletic, medium build, and hairy; part of the larger bear community.
Wolf
Hairy or semi-hairy, lean, muscular, attractive, and sexually aggressive and/or dominant; usually has facial hair.
Geek
Anyone who doesn’t fit neatly into the aforementioned categories.
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What is your type? What types have we missed? Sound off in comments below!
Todd W Stuart
Labels. Sigh.
Jeremiah Tulagan
Chubs?
Will Glitzern
At least us geeks weren’t broken down into categories.
Edward Roco Cooper
Louis Laveau Roseveà re why are u in this list
Sean Wilkerson
What utter vapid bullshit…. And the author can’t even put people into a basket neatly… Half of their assertions on “most common body types,” aren’t even correct… Go home…
Tapan Bhat
I think the author needs to learn the difference between dominate and dominant
Jimmy Hufferd
Stupid
Giancarlo85
Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb.
That’s all I have to say about this.
I think watching Juventus crash and burn yesterday was more interesting than this article.
And twunk? Posting two pictures of go-go boys? Seriously.
““The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time,’” ”
And we wonder why there is an obesity epidemic in America. I see fat guys go to the gym all the time. They sometimes work on their arms or do some low calorie burning exercises. Eight slices of pizza at a time? I can barely finish two.
Lhoung Arevalo
Spornosexual
Good-looking, sex- and body-obsessed with a high disposable income and who lives in an urban area; the 21st century version of a metrosexual…..but could only afford noodles for dinner.lmao
Louis Laveau Roseveàre
I wasn’t even aware I was a cub until I realised I was the guy in the photo for “cub” hahaha
James Bromilow
How did geeks go from being people who have a knowledgeable enthusiasm for science, sci-fi and/or fantasy to being every other gay man who doesn’t fall into a porn category? Also, age, socio-economic class and volume of body hair don’t count as body types.
Michael Bath
Seriously, who writes this bullshit?
Maude
My mind is made up………Though my body would argue with my brain, I am still a hansom, ‘smooth all over’ 145lb blond twink.
I do have hair growing where it never grew before, but I shave, or cut it off regularly.
My ‘taste’ (pun intended) in guys remains the same….as close to a mirror image of the ‘tricks’ I coveted then, and I have to admit, I’ve reached an age when I have on occasion, paid for it on my trips to Rio, and Costa Rica….and it’s worth every penny!
sfbeast
I’ll have a lumberotter please.
McShane
You must be over the age of 35, to be a bear? What?!? When did this happen? Graham, who ever told you that was either joking or has no idea what a bear is. Bearserker82 is 33. He is fine as wine but he’s more dadbod than bear.
This, is a bear. http://thetrendybear.tumblr.com/image/120068465610
lauraspencer
So by looking at these photos most guys in the world then fall in the category of “geeks”. Who knew?
I agree with McShane. They guy used as an example of a “bear” is more of a “dad bod”. Bears are a bit bigger (i.e. fatter).
Looking at the “otter” and “wolf” there is no difference between the two.
What happened to the well known “Chelsea Muscle Boy” of years past? Does this body type no longer exist?
Glücklich
By this list Mr. Glücklich is a geeky otter and I’m a wolfish sporno. Except I’m not sex-obsessed; good-looking is too subjective; and body-“obsessed” is a bit strong.
Joey Torrealba
I Like My Men Like I Like My Morning Breakfast Lunch And Dinner I Don’t Judge nor discriminate . To all men and all body types you are all sexy and I love you all .
Our Bodies, Our Confidence: For gay men.
Regardless of label, all these types are beautiful! Let’s learn to celebrate and love our diversity! <3
puppybone69
You forgot the coyote, the hairless version of the wolf!
DannX68
Otter, Wolf and Geek for me, thanks 🙂
Mike Muniz
I hate myself for reading this
mjhaylock
Lol. Look at that. I’m the twink 😀 haha.
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martinbakman
@Lhoung Arevalo: I’d like to check HIS noodle.
NoAgenda
Completely left out chubs. Article was a waste of time and poorly written. 🙁
NoAgenda
@Our Bodies, Our Confidence: For gay men.: I agree!!
John Hardman
Grrrr
Saint Law
@Giancarlo85: “Eight slices of pizza at a time? I can barely finish two.”
You just know Giancarlo is built like a sumo wrestler.
nature boy
@McShane: you’ll get used to it, it’s just GRAHAM GREMORE. Whenever a Queerty post makes me want to bang my head repeatedly on the table, it’s usually one of his. I’ve only ever found one of his posts that I liked.
Kevin Dyier
More labels just means more ways to discriminate and am I the only one to notice the horrifying LACK of color in this lineup
AndYouWillDeal
THUNK? LMAO, that’s a stupid term Davey Wavey came up with to describe herself, but in good ol’ gay slang she is a MUSCLE MARY!
Rick Lotto
This is ridiculous, insulting, and whoever wrote it should be ashamed.
Sweetie Pie
Whoever wrote this must have burnt the last tree brain cells he had left inside the skull ….LOL
Giancarlo85
@Saint Law: Bullshit.
Jonathan Mears
Omg. Haha. I love how this author got butt-hurt nobody liked his first post, so he decided to try again. #fail … As another person wrote, “Go home!”
Bob LaBlah
@lauraspencer: Remember the good ol’ days when Marlborough Men turned heads where ever and when ever they went? Sigh, those were the days.
Anthony Medina
Wife says I’m either an otter or wolf, but most likely an otter. I can live with that;)
Ryan-Andrew Michael Villanueva
Spornosexual?
Rick Guasco
Are you trying to be as vapid as Out Magazine?
Andrew Espinosa
Dumb.
Alan David Smith
each one was good looking in their own. way but not all were my type.
Dan Levin
When did “jock” become “twunk”?
These categories are fucking stupid.
Greg Morris
ftlog guys… this is just for fun, you don’t have to get all bent out of shape over it. Maybe we should call guys the pretzels.
Amun J
@Kevin Dyier: No, you’re not the only one to notice the blatant lack of color here. Unfortunately, it’s common among these sites. And despite our so-called community’s cries for equality, fairness, and quickness to cry foul when we are “discriminated” against, we have a long way to go in figuring out how not to box, label, and discriminate amongst ourselves.
Doug Freelon
Everyone of these guys is under 30 and has minimal body fat. What the hell are you talking about?!! The 10 most common body types at the White Party perhaps, but certainly NOT in San Francisco! You basically show 2 “types” here: Skinny and hairless and beefy and hairy. I hope an intern put this article together because if you’re paying anyone to write crap like this you’re wasting your money.
Óscar ML K
labels. labels, labels, labels…. seriously, stop it!
Masc Pride
Not a big fan of the beard trend and the whole “homeless look”, but that is one HOT lumbersexual.
yaletownman
With all the really interesting things that We as LGBT folks have to offer this is the kind of stuff somebody publishing a site like this comes up with. We may only be a small fraction of the population but at any given moment there are those among us that are doing interesting, controversial, uplifting, any other worthwhile descriptor you can think of, things. All this yet all we can do is portray ourselves as obsessed with the vapid and meaningless. We should be seeing things coming from our own media that affirms that we are more than this. This will make us truly proud and build the self esteem that is often stripped from us in our youth. Don’t get me wrong, there is a place for this kind of stuff but there is so much more to all of us and we deserve to see it more of that than we do of this.
DC Sheehan
I think there’s some confusion here with basic definitions along with some glaring omissions, chubs being the key one. And whoever told you bears must be 35+ or that geek is a catch all label was trolling you.
Labels shouldn’t be dismissed as useless or negative. We often suffer from not fitting in do being able to hook into a community through a label can help make us feel secure. Unfortunately labels are also exclusionary (I say this as someone who neatly fits no label) and so if you aren’t any typical type it actually reinforces that you don’t belong.
Avery Alvarez
oh, god,
this is a fun, fluff article and some weirdos are making this out to be “THE END OF GAY EQUALITY AS WE KNOW IT”
Get over yourselves, and save the self-righteousness for your teddy bears, ’cause god knows no living being wanna hear that crap
ethan_hines
@Will Glitzern: We should have been since I am a Ectomorph Geek
charmin88
I guess I fit in the Twunk area, but I don’t think I like the name-_-
Alex Long
I’m the ‘Geek’ in the picture (my tumblr is rambunctiousgay if you want some proof). While I appreciate the use of my picture, I wasn’t aware geek was a body type, when really I’m an ‘otter’ who had to shave off his body hair for a show in that picture which would have made me closer to a ‘twink’. It’s all fun though 🙂 I just found this article through a friend, had no idea my pic was on it!
notevenwrong
Queerty, I have to wonder about the ethics of using private individuals’ photographs for commercial purposes without their permission. There may be a legal case in there somewhere.
John
Geesh! By this at age 51 Im an “otter” or a “wolf”? LoL. I guess I coulmd gain 20 lbs and skip the gym and become a “dad”.
Eray Turkmen
geeks r hot … somehow
Joey Thompson
Gimme all the otters!
Milton Appleby
Drop the labels. It’s passe.
David Red
I never identified as a “bear” though that is what some call me. I like “wolf” much better. I am all of the things listed or that description except overtly muscular.
Marcus Pennington
I love the one for geek lol
Alex Rey
miren, ustedes que se lo preguntaban Oscar, Merit
Anthony Melendez
Spornosexual and Geek for me thank you <3
amigay
I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t think I have a dad bod.