I Love Grey Hair
TNG co-founder Zack spent some time over Valentines Day reevaluating what inconsequential things he loves. All this week he will tell you what he came up with. Check in tomorrow for "Things I Love" pt. 4.
There's a thin line between turn-on and fetish. I'm pretty certain that my all-abiding love of young guys with grey hair falls firmly on the side of turn-on. I don't want to eat silver-toned razor clippings or play "hide the bedpan" at the closest retirement home. However, about as long as I've had access to sex I've found guys with salt and pepper locks (not Salt N' Pepa lox, unfortunately) to be the hottest things since sliced Butt Magazines. It's not a daddy issue or some weird erotic reaction to Lois Lowry's "The Giver." It's just a confession of my membership in the too-small "Silver Chasers" club.
I remember my awakening. My college hosted an event called "Freshman Sing" where the new class earns the respect of the older kids by singing a bunch of Alma Mater songs to the entire student body. Most of the upperclassmen just go to see who's cute. I was no exception. Three days into my sophomore year I was watching the whole class of '07 file by when someone caught my eye. He was of my standard type — tall, skinny, horn-rimmed glasses —but was sporting a full mane of grey hair. He was 18. We did something just under dating, on and off, for the next three years. No matter if we were making out at a given point of time, or even acknowledging each other in public, I always got a thrill at having landed the guy with grey hair.
This was a year after I made an ass of myself in front of Mo Rocca following a speaking engagement at my college, and a year before I saw him on the street in New York and barked "Oh hi there!" as if he was a long lost best friend. Silverfoxes do that to me.
Flash forward four years from that. Guess what my boyfriend has? Yup, the works. Silver in this hair. Silver in his beard. I love it. Once the guy who cuts our hair (yeah, we get our hair cut together. What of it?) suggested a dye-job and I almost assaulted him with his own clippers. It's just too important to me. It would be like telling a hard-core breast man that his girlfriend should have a reduction. Or informing an exclusive top that his boyfriend was having something called a "corking surgery" which is only legal in Scandinavia. It's unacceptable.
Of course I do have to field a fair share of insensitive questions. No, my boyfriend doesn't have white nose, chest or ball hair. No, I don't spend inordinate amounts of time on Lemon Party. (Link NSFW.) No, I don't have any kind of submission, leather or muscle fetishes. I just really like grey hair.
What about you, TNG readers? Any weird turn-ons that everyone else gives you shit for?
7 comments:
i love silverfoxes too. i also love fred perrys in an almost fetishy way, so that photo's just fine by me.
i'm also often really attracted to guys with casts. especially arm casts, but legs as well. people seem to think it's incredibly weird.
as a 20-something with a growing amount of grey hair around my temples, i wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment. also, i just got very confused as to whether i should spell it "grey" or "gray." it turns out they're both right, but "grey" is more popular over in britain.
big fan of gray here. we need to have a party just for grays and their admirers. i never see nearly enough of them anywhere.
I love guys with grey hair. I also have a huge thing for guys with glasses.
yes - we do love Anderson Cooper! The other day I saw this hot black guy (str8) who had VERY bow legs - and I thought, "OMFG! A new turn-on to add to my love of long hair and Roman noses!"
Add me to the gray hair fans. What are fred perrys?
his shirt, that's a fred perry. it's kind of a skinhead thing, which is another one of my sexual fixations that other people think are weird. people who aren't skinheads wear fred perry of course, me for instance, but those polo shirts do make up part of the skinhead uniform.
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