Davey Wavey
{{Short description|American YouTuber}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
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| birth_name = David Perry Jacques
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|07|12}}
| birth_place = Woonsocket, Rhode Island, U.S.
| occupation = YouTuber
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| channel_handle = daveywavey
| channel_display_name = wickydkewl
| years_active = 2006–present
| genre = {{hlist|LGBT|sex|relationships}}
| subscribers = 1.64 million
| views = 775.1 million
| stats_update = April 2, 2024
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David Perry Jacques (born July 12, 1983), known as Davey Wavey, is an American YouTuber who covers LGBT topics related to sex, relationships, and coming out. His YouTube channel has over a million subscribers.{{Cite web|date=July 17, 2019|title=This is What It's Like to Be Internet Sensation Davey Wavey Now|url=https://metrosource.com/internet-influencer-davey-wavey/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717165232/https://metrosource.com/internet-influencer-davey-wavey/ |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |access-date=November 3, 2020|website=metrosource.com}} Wavey is also the creator of Himeros.tv, an erotic video platform.{{Cite web|date=October 29, 2019|title=Davey Wavey Talks the Good, the Bad, and the Future of Porn|url=https://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2019/10/29/davey-wavey-talks-good-bad-and-future-porn|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=advocate.com|language=en}}
Early life
Davey Wavey grew up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in a conservative Catholic family.{{Cite web|last=Needle|first=Chael|title=Davey Wavey: Advocate {{!}} A&U Magazine|url=https://aumag.org/2017/11/24/davey-wavey-advocate/|access-date=November 4, 2020|language=en-US}} He came out as gay when he was 16 and abandoned the Catholic faith while attending a Catholic high school. He has lived in Rhode Island, New York City, Washington, D.C., Buenos Aires, Toronto, and West Hollywood, California.{{Cite web|date=December 21, 2015|title=Davey Wavey Leaves WeHo for Home in Rhode Island|url=https://www.wehoville.com/2015/12/21/56460/|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=WEHOville|language=en-US}}
Career
Wavey's first YouTube video was on June 21, 2007. He became well known after his 2007 video, "I Caught My Hot Neighbor Masturbating! (with sound)" went viral, reaching over two million views. His channel, wickydkewl, has over a million subscribers from 150 countries. Wavey talks about love and sex, often appearing shirtless.{{Cite web|date=March 21, 2018|title=Davey Wavey's Gay Sex Ed|url=https://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2018/3/21/davey-waveys-gay-sex-ed|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=advocate.com|language=en}} Wavey began by making videos that addressed misconceptions about gay people, "Like that all gay men are hairdressers or sexually promiscuous or that we're weak", but now describes his videos as "focused on the misconceptions, stigmas, and issues within our LGBT community. Those include slut-shaming, a lack of respect for elder-gays, fem-shaming, HIV, and body issues, to name a few."{{Cite web|date=August 4, 2016|title=YouTube Millionaires: Davey Wavey Discusses "Journey Of Sexual Exploration And Discovery"|url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2016/08/04/youtube-millionaires-davey-wavey/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806000315/http://www.tubefilter.com/2016/08/04/youtube-millionaires-davey-wavey/ |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |access-date=November 3, 2020|website=tubefilter.com}}
In 2017, Wavey created Himeros.tv, a porn platform that "enhances gay and bisexual men's experience of sex and sexuality through connection, exploration, and pleasure".{{Cite web|last=Himeros.TV|title=About Us {{!}} The Best Gay Sex of Your Life|url=https://himeros.tv/tour/about/|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=himeros.tv|language=en}} Wavey described Himeros.tv to The Advocate saying, "We don't market it as educational porn or porn that's good for you, but it kind of is. It's porn, that when you watch it, you see either a technique that's being demonstrated or a concept that you feel like you can apply to your life. As gay men in a vacuum of sex education, we learned about sex by doing what? Watching porn." Himeros.tv creates videos with sex coaches, sexologists, tantric coaches, and adult film stars.
Wavey also had a cameo as a non-nude extra in Justice League : A Gay XXX Parody (2018), Men.com's gay porn parody of Justice League.{{Cite web |last=Wavey |first=Davey |date=December 11, 2017 |title=My First Gay Porn |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-first-gay-porn_b_5a2ef8c5e4b0cf10effbafad |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}
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