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Why Do We Find Twins So Freaking Sexy?

Is it some weird genetic thing or is it simply we like to double our pleasure?

By Chai SteevesPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Why Do We Find Twins So Freaking Sexy?
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Who remembers the Doublemint Twin ads from the 1980? Sexy blonde twins selling us chewing gum. Better yet, the Maidenform bra twins of the 1950s. And how many issues of Playboy or Penthouse, over the years, have featured twins as models. A quick google search for sexy twins comes up with 188,000 hits. It’s a bit of a trope — as a society, we love to sexualize twins.

I fall for it hard. One of the favourite fetishes is when my wife and her best friend dress identically. Whether it’s matching dresses at a nice restaurant, identical tanks and jean shorts at a patio, or matching lingerie, it’s definitely ‘a thing’ for me. In fact, it’s pretty much a given that when either order a new sexy dress, bathing suit, or lingerie they will order two. At parties, or when we see other friends out, it’s become a bit of a running observation that they often dress alike. At a recent cottage weekend we all spent together, they brought 8 matching bikinis — 8!

And more generally — how often do we see sexy matching costumes at Halloween parties. We find twins sexy.

There are a lot of theories of why we sexualize twins. Probably the most dominant — society tells us to. It’s been standard fare on TV and in movies for decades — the gorgeous, sexy twins that everyone wants. I can still remember, as a kid, watching an episode of the talk show Jenny Jones with my babysitter, featuring ‘the sexiest twins in America’. We do what popular media tells us to do. And it tells us to find twins sexy.

Another theory — a little more out there — relates to a genetic predisposition to sexualize relatives. It’s that one of the reasons incest is one of the few issues that both religious and progressives people agree to condemn — socialized condemnation is necessary to quash a natural tendency we have to want to sexually bond with relatives. It’s apparently true — studies have shown pretty conclusively that we have a natural sexual attraction to our relatives, and it takes either religion or sexual norms to make sure we don’t act on it.

Personally, I’m not sure I would find actual twins sexy. Wait — that’s not true. I would certainly find them sexy, but I would not want to have sex with them. I’m quite sure that the idea of relatives actually having sex — that would be a libido killer for me. It would probably be awesome right up until the point that the clothes come off. And then it would get a little too real.

But the idea of sex with twins. My wife and I play out that fantasy scenario in dirty talk all the time. We both love it. And with our friends — it’s a recurring sexy theme. On virtually all of our sexiest nights together, there are at least a few costume changes when the girls (and/or the guys) will don identical outfits and do a little show for the others.

But, to be honest, I don’t think the sexualization of it is, for us, at all related to the idea that they may be biologically related. We never play into that part of the fantasy/scenario. It really is a decadence and a ‘doubling of pleasure’ thing. The idea that there are these two beautiful people — kind of interchangeable in the moment — that you are sexually attracted to. It just feels so opulent and indulgent.

I think that’s what I like about it — the excess. Being with someone who I find over-the-top sexy is the ultimate. When you can double that — for the moment — it’s like winning the lottery.

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Chai Steeves

I'm an eclectic guy - I like writing about sex, relationships, parenting, politics, celebrity trivia - the works. I'm happily married and a father of 2.

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