What is the origin of the term “69”? When did it first get started? How did it get started? Who first used the term?
It was originally “soixante-neuf” in French, and just comes from the numbers 6 and 9 together looking like a picture of the two partners giving oral sex to each other.
A related question: Does the line “Get your kicks on Route 66” represent anal sex? I’ve heard the song and just assumed this to be the case.
Wouldn’t it look more like a six and
Sorry. Wouldn’t it look more like a 6 and a 9 if it was two flexible people curled up performing oral sex on themselves next to each other like this:
69
Two people in a 69 don’t really look like a 6 and a 9 to me.
No. The song is the theme from the old TV show, Route 66, which took place along US Highway 66, which before Interstates was the main highway between Chicago and Los Angeles.
I think that is a reference to driving cross country. Route 66 was the only major road that you take once you got to the Midwest if you were going to California.
Well, obviously it isn’t completely realistic, but if you take the circular part of each number to be a person’s head and the “tail” of each number to be the rest of the person’s body, surely you can see how it represents two people with their heads lined up to the other person’s genitals.
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Cite: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=24
I find it funny that someone from latex division is asking this.
Hey, hey, I’m quite familiar with Route 66, the highway. I just thought the song had a double meaning. If you can picture why simultaneous oral sex is called 69, you can surely picture 66 meaning what I thought it meant. I’ve always just assumed that Route 66 is the proverbial Hershey Highway.
I disagree with the contention that 69 as a sex term was first spotted in 1988. It was the topic of locker-room snickering when I was a high-school kid in 1965. A couple of guys got sent home from school for wearing 69 t-shirts, so apparently the teachers knew about it, too. This was in central Indiana, which usually lags behind the coastal areas in fads and fashion.
By the way, the imagery is easier if you imagine sideways-looking faces on the round parts of 69, with the 6 face upside down and facing toward the 9. A variation, 19, indicated a one-sided blowjob.
And, of course, the famous Serge Gainsbourg song “Soixante-neuf (l’annee erotique)” which also predates a 1988 reference. However, it seems you misread the date, as Fire Engine cited 1888 in her reference.
I think a while back someone told me that 33 was supposed to represent anal sex. Can anyone confirm this?
It becomes apparent I can’t code.
“Ma’am, if you think I can do that sixty-eight more times, you’re crazy!”
Sigh.
So much misinformation.
“Route 66,” the song (Get your kicks on Route 66) was written by Bobby Troupe in 1946. Nat King Cole’s trio had a chart hit with it that same year.
“Theme from Route 66,” for the TV show “Route 66,” was written by Nelson Riddle. The show ran from 1960-1964, the theme (an instrumental) was a Top 40 hit in 1962.
Visit here for midis of the above two different pieces of music.
Route 66, the highway, is an American icon, and was for some time before the song was written. The song is easily understood as a celebration of it. To postulate a double meaning related to anal sex strikes me as reaching WAY too far. In fact, I would suspect that no one else, most especially Bobby Troupe, has even thought such a thing.
So if the loop on the six and nine respectively are supposed to represent the heads the two parties involved I’m not sure how you get anal sex from 66…wouldn’t 66 be two people standing on their heads?
Maybe it is one of those unnatural new-age hippie kama sutra sex acts…I surelywouldn’t know. 
Yeah, but if you did it the other way it would give that Get Smart gal an entirely new character.
All I know is that Interstate 69 signs are frequently replaced as they often wind up on dormitory walls as decor.