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Sexual slang is any slang term which makes reference to sex, sexuality, sexual activity, the sexual organs, or matters closely related to them.
Introduction
In the popular jargon of many cultures, the use of sexual slang is a form of humor or euphemism that often creates controversy over its popular use. Sexual humor is seen in many circles as crude and unsophisticated, as well as insulting towards the subject it describes. Nevertheless, sexual humor has been popular since the earliest days of human society, and crude humor is seen as having a place in popular culture.
Sexual slang is often used by adolescent youths in the rituals of growing up. It often is one way for youths to test the limits of tolerance in their society, both in their own families and in the larger community.
The popularity of various comedians who indulge in sexual slang, from George Carlin to Andrew Dice Clay, reflects the appeal of this form of speech. It is often seen as a form of taboo, in which much of the appeal lies in the shock value of daring to speak "forbidden" words in public.
Activities
Full session of sexual activity
A group of slang terms dealing with sexual activities, borrowing terms from baseball, is in particular circulation among Americans. Details vary, but most criteria are similar.
- First base - Kissing, especially "French" kissing.
- Second base - Fondling or groping, especially of the breasts or genitals.
- Third base - Depending on the speaker, either full nudity or a non-intercourse orgasm (especially when resulting from oral sex) or dry humping (clothed genital to genital stimulation).
- Home run (or "Hitting it out of the park", etc.; sometimes "Fourth Base") - Sexual intercourse.
- Grand Slam - Engaging in anal sex or other advanced sexual activity.
A common mnemonic device for the bases is "french, feel, finger, fuck."
Anal sex is sometimes also referred to as "extra innings," "the dugout," or "fifth base."
Masturbation is often referred to as "laying down a bunt" or "running the bases alone."
Kissing
Terms for (ordinary, usually face-to-face) kissing — not including oral sex.
- Bagging off
- Charving (Irish)
- Dating (Irish)
- Draggin (Trinidad youth term common during the 1990's)
- Eating dinner (involves tongue)
- Feeking (Irish)
- Frenching (involves tongue)
- Getting off (British)
- Getting on (British)
- Going away with (Irish)
- Grabbing (common among teens)
- Hooking up (common among teens)
- Interfacing
- Ligging Out
- Lip-lock (in a)
- Lip Wrestling
- Macking
- Making out
- Meeting (Irish/Scouse)
- Mugging down (Texas A&M University)
- Necking
- Parking (1950s slang, involves a car)
- Pashing
- Playing "Tic-Tac-Toe" (Eastern United States)
- Popping Tongue(Bajan/Barbadian)
- Pulling (British)
- Shifting (Irish)
- Scoring (Irish)
- Smooching
- Snogging
- Sparking
- Sucking face
- Sucking skin
- Swapping spit
- Tapping off
- The washing machine (involves tongue)
- Tongue wars
- Tongue Wrestling
- Tonsil-hockey (involves tongue)
- Tonsil-tennis (involves tongue)
- Watching submarine races ("What couples do when parked at the river side at night")
- Winched (Glaswegian Slang)
- Doin' the Peter thing
Foreplay not otherwise classified
Foreplay usually includes forms of stimulation leading up to, but not including, intercourse. The terms below refer to foreplay in general. See other sections for specific types of foreplay, such as masturbation or oral sex.
- Agressive Cuddling
- Beaver teasing
- Canoodling
- Cool down
- Cop A Feel (or simply cop)
- Crank Yanking
- Dry humping
- Dry sex
- Face time
- Feel up
- Fool around
- Get down to business
- Goose
- Grind
- Groping
- Heavy Petting
- Hit the double
- Kicking it
- Make out
- Mash
- Neck
- New-school stimulation
- Old-school stimulation
- Ouverture
- Party
- Pet
- Play
- Spooning
- Stall
- Start the engine
- Study
- Touch up
- Twist the nipples
- Warm up
Sexual intercourse
Terms for sexual intercourse may refer to vaginal intercourse (coitus) or anal intercourse.
Vaginal intercourse (coitus)
Vaginal intercourse is when the penis is inserted into the vagina, and pushed in and pulled out (though usually not all the way out) repeatedly.
Vaginal intercourse
- Adam and Eve'ing it
- Banging
- Bedroom fun
- Birds and the bees, just like the
- "Boom-shaka-laka-laka-laka (x3) Boom" (also refers to a song)
- Boning
- Breeding
- Cunt busting
- Deflowering (specific to sex with a virgin)
- Doggy style (refers to intercourse with the woman on all fours facing away from the man)
- Doing it
- Doing the Humpty-Dumpty
- Doing the nasty
- Doing the naughty
- Exchanging bodily fluids
- Fooling around
- Fraternizing
- Getting busy
- Getting freaky
- Getting into someone's pants
- Getting it on
- Getting laid
- Getting some
- Getting some action
- Hitting a home run
- In and out
- Inserting tab A into slot B
- Introducing yourself to each other
- Invading
- Joy ride
- Logging on
- Making a baby
- Making love
- Mounting
- Riding the pony
- Slamming
- Taxing
Anal intercourse
A-C
- 99
- 57 (a number that represents anal sex, like 69 does for mutual oral sex)
- 66 (see above)
- A Level (UK)
- Anal riding
- Around the world (to switch back and forth between vaginal and anal penetration)
- Arse piracy
- Ass drilling
- Ass fucking
- Ass Jacking
- Ass love
- Ass pounding
- Ass pumping
- Ass ripping (devirginizing)
- Ass spelunking
- Ass stretching
- Back door action
- Back door bandits (usually the San Francisco Back Door Bandits)
- Back door delivery
- Back door Romeo
- Back door slicker
- Back shafting
- Backside entry
- Bare back(ing) (specifically without the use of a condom)
- Beatin 'em guts
- Being Bubba's Bitch
- Black magic
- Blue Moon
- Bomba (Orc, occasionally used as a method of execution)
- Breaking the asshole
- Brown love
- Brown town (as in "took him to..."; apparently Australian slang, uttered by Hugh Jackman on SNL)
- Brown woody
- Bucking the Billy
- Buffing
- Buggering
- Bum Darts
- Bum lovin
- Bum fun
- Bumming
- Bum sex
- Butt buddies
- Butt fuck(ing)
- Butt drilling
- Butt pirating
- Butt pounding
- Butt sex
- Butterscotch (term used to describe the mixture of lube and fecal matter created during anal sex)
- Buttsecks
- Bowling the star
- CBS (Craving Butt Sex)
- Charlie in the chocolate factory
- Checking out breakfast
- Chocolate hugh jackhammering
- Cock and Bum fun
- Colin Kenneth Thompson
- Cornholeing
- Crossing Snickers Street
- Chocolate Cha-Cha
- Chocolate covered banana
- Chocolate Dipping
- Chocolate Penis
- Chunk in the Trunk
- Czu!
- Culo Conquistador
D-G
- Dancing with Bubba
- Dar/tomar por culo (Spanish)
- David Hockney (famously "takes it up shitter")
- Deathwish (Anal sex without a condom usually with a prostitute) UK.
- Digging for gold in black earth
- Dirt Road (Down the dirt road)
- Dirty Dicking
- Doing it Ennis style (Specifically Irish)
- Doing it the Napoleon way
- Doing the butt
- Doing the Dylan
- Doing the Rachael Guzman
- Doggy Style
- Donut burning (British, gay male usage)
- Drilling for brown
- Dropping anchor in Poop Bay
- Earning your Brown Wings
- Estilo Detroit (Spanish, ‘Detroit style’ — pun on detrás = ‘behind’)
- Fifth Base
- Fishing for brown trout
- Fudge packing
- Fudge nudging
- Futt bucking
- Gaand maarna (Hindi)
- Going downtown to browntown
- Going in the A: drive
- Going in the out/exit door
- Gouging the Brown Eye
- Greek
- Gudda denguta (Telugu)
H-S
- Haciendo un trineo (Spanish)
- Ham Slammin'
- Hershey Highway (driving down the)
- Hotdog
- IDB (In Da Butt)
- Kicking in the Safe
- Leaving Grimsby for Hull (to switch between vaginal and anal penetration)
- Lolloping
- Lunch pushing
- Marmite Mining
- Marmite motorway
- Mining for brown
- Moses and the parting of the Red Cheeks
- Mud packing
- Nice in the twice
- Packing shit
- Parking the truck in the garage
- Pertikoliasma (Greek)
- Pillow biting
- Pillow munching
- Playing bum darts
- Playing Doctor
- Playing the back nine
- Playing in the mud (because there's no grass on the field yet)
- Petando (el culo) (Spanish)
- PIITB (Put It In The Butt)
- PIHB (Put It in Her Butt)
- Pile driving
- Pisokolito (Greek)
- Pit Lane Pass
- Plowing the dirtbox
- Poking the brown eye
- Poking the pooper
- Poking the pooter
- Poop chute boogie
- Poop piracy
- Poop pounding
- Poopy dick
- Potting the brown / Pot the brown
- Prospecting in the Black Forest
- Pucker fucking
- Pushing brownies
- Putting your boat in the water
- Putting from the rough
- Reaming
- Rectal responsibility
- Repopulating Armenia
- Riding in the back
- Riding the dirt road
- Riding the Hershey Highway
- Riding the vein train to A-town
- Ringslide (Doing the-)
- Rump Wrangling
- Rump Rangering
- Rump rider/knight (Being a-)
- Sahrawi (Arabic, literally translating to "desert-style". Name describes the dryness of anal sex)
- Santorum (the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter created during anal sex - as coined by "Savage Love")
- Sewer-Chewer
- Sex in the back of a Volkswagen (From Kevin Smith's Mallrats)
- Shit Digger
- Shit packing
- Shit Shack Sharp Shooting
- Shit stabbing
- Shopping at Walmart
- Shoving Saddam in the spider hole
- Slippery Butt Darts
- Sodomy
- Sticking the turd cutter
- Stink-pipe surprise
- Stinker McGoo
- Stirring the fudge
- Stretching the Balloon Knot
- Strolling down Cadbury Road
- Switching lanes without signaling (to switch between vaginal and anal penetration)
- Syrian Style (With the use of Vaseline)
T-Z
- Tailgunning
- Taking/Putting it up the ass/butt/dookie chute/poop chute/shitter/yin yang
- Taking a walk on the brown side
- Taking the dirt path
- Taking the skinny boat to Chinatown
- Taking the vein train to A-Town
- The Ultimate Birth Control
- Throwing Butt Darts
- Throwing it in the back
- Trying on the pink sock
- Turd burgling
- Turning His/her Brown Eye Blue
- Two-hole
- Uphill gardening
- Up the back passage
- Up the Gary (after 70s pop-star Gary Glitter, whose name rhymes with shitter)
- Up the shitter
- Use the tradesmen's entrance
- Visiting vegemite valley
- Voting Tory
- Wearing the red shoes
- Wrong Love
- Wrong Way Down the One Way Street
Oral sex
Oral sex involves the stimulation of the sexual organs (or anus) of one person by the mouth (tongue, etc.) of another. Many terms for oral sex simply consist of the words eat, bite, blow, suck, chew, or a similar verb, followed by a noun suggesting genitalia. Others are more original.
Masturbation
There are many terms for masturbation, the manual stimulation of one's genitals. Some of the more common follow.
Generic
- Playing with oneself
- Pleasuring oneself
- Self-gratifying
- Teasing yourself
- Touching yourself at night
Non-english expressions
Male masturbation in Cantonese and standard Chinese translates as hitting the airplane, or in popular slang in Taiwan as polishing the gun or firing the pistol. The Turkish expression translates literally to pull 31.
The act of 'pitching a tent' in Japanese can be referred to as "Mokkori!" An expression popularized by main character Ryo Saeba in the manga/anime story 'City Hunter'. City Hunter was first published in manga form by writer and artists Hojo Tsukasa in 1985 under publisher Shonen Jump Magazine.
See also
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External links
- Amatory Thesaurus
- Sex Dictionary — mostly non-slang terms; some slang also
- Urban Dictionary — all types of slang
- The World's Largest Collection of Masturbation Synonyms
- Encyclopedia of Sex — "The Web's Best Source of Sexual Terms and Definitions"