Starkers!

"For the confirmed bachelor of exceptional taste." Pink Mince #6

Starkers! appears in issue #6 of Pink Mince as a sharply framed exploration of desire, style, and self-conscious masculinity. Guided by the ironic tagline “For the confirmed bachelor of exceptional taste,” the contribution operates between satire and affirmation, drawing on visual codes of fashion, erotics, and editorial culture. Rather than proposing a fixed identity, the project treats taste as a performative construct—cultivated, exaggerated, and knowingly staged. Within the context of Pink Mince, Starkers! functions as a compact study of how aesthetic preference, intimacy, and queer self-positioning intersect in contemporary independent publishing.