Can someone tell me what Jim Morrison is actually referring too in the Doors song “Backdoor Man” when he says, “I eat more chicken than any man ever seen”. I heard he is referring to cunnilingus. Is this true? If so were did this reference come from?
If it helps, Ian Astbury, the singer touring with the Doors this year, sings that lyric as “I eat more p***y than any man ever seen”.
ah that does help! I just wonder why chicken?
'Cause everything tastes like chicken.
(Plus, it scans.)
Chicken, a.k.a. yardbird, has a certain southern bluesman flavor.
Or maybe he was talking about underage boys…
He should lay off. It’s not like the Doors wrote the song. Since Willie Dixon also wrote Little Red Rooster I fancy that “eating chicken” is more general than one specific sex act.
They may not have written the song, but Morrison did invent that particular lyric.
A bit of self-correction on my last post:
After further investigation, the “I eat more chicken” line was originally used by Howlin’ Wolf in his cover of the song, although it is not in Willie Dixon’s original lyrics.
Shame on me for not doing my homework. 
Nowadays, chicken is inexpensive and widely available. We think of it as an everyday, no-big-deal meat. Before mass-production chicken methods, though, a chicken dinner was a special occasion. In old blues and folk songs such as I Got Mine, (“Ever since the big crap game, I been livin’ on chicken and wine”) the song is probably about the fowl. With that special status, it’s not surprising that chicken became a metaphor for a sweet woman, or a sweet part of her.