# Shrimping? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 21, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434 "2000-01-21T15:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/1 "2000-01-21T15:20:00Z")
Got into a conversation about odd fetishes here at the office when a particularly nasty .mpg file made it’s way into our e-mail boxes. I brought up felching (like any good Doper would under these circumstances), and someone asked about “shrimping.” None of us knew exactly what shrimping was, though we hypothesized that it was simply another term for felching. Is it? Or is I something else? Anyone? Coldfire? 🙂 * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/2 "2000-01-21T15:22:00Z")
Enlighten me…first, what’s “feltching”? Is that a typo, perhaps? Or, a blend of two bodily functions? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/3 "2000-01-21T15:29:00Z")
Satan, I know this!I got it from a JohnWaters book.It is a sexual practice whereby one person sucks the others toes! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/4 "2000-01-21T15:34:00Z")
I can’t believe I actually got an answer for someone.And Satan of all people!(meaning hes so smart I thought he knew this already).Do I win anything?? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/5 "2000-01-21T15:37:00Z")
What I read: Similar to “felching,” but involving the use of a straw. ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowcsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rainbowcsr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowcsr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/6 "2000-01-21T15:38:00Z")
**AUUGGGGH! YUCK!** Nothing like a good case of ‘athletes’ teeth!! Umm, I DON’T know what ‘feltching’ is either. **CRIPES!** I’m still trying to get past the image of stinky feet, gnarled toenails and toenail fungus! * * * What? Me worry?’ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/7 "2000-01-21T15:47:00Z")
Rainbowcsr, if toe sucking grosses you out that much, then you should be HAPPY you don’t know what felching is. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/8 "2000-01-21T15:51:00Z")
Satan, orangecakes is correct in saying that shrimping is sucking toes. 🙂 Anyone out there who wants to know what feltching is could easily do a search on purity tests here but you probably don’t want to know. (You could also search under my name since I am one of the only people who admitted to have ever feltched/been feltched.) HUGS! Sqrl * * * Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/9 "2000-01-21T16:10:00Z")
Madonna says she likes shrimping. ::shrug:: ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/10 "2000-01-21T16:27:00Z")
I had heard the same as you, Morning Star, that shrimping was the same as felching. I bow, however, to SqrlCub’s and oc’s knowledge, if for no other reason than I want to live in a world where something like felching only has one name. * * * He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break. And while Yori raged against his unbending courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back. His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought. -_Yakamo’s Funeral_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/11 "2000-01-21T16:52:00Z")
Yes indeedy, shrimping is toe-sucking, as practiced by such celebrities as the former Duchess of York. For a good look, rent John Waters’ early “Mondo Trasho,” in which Mary Vivian Pearce is shrimped by a stalker, right before being run over by Divine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/12 "2000-01-22T06:12:00Z")
Eve, a fellow Waters fan! ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/13 "2000-01-22T06:18:00Z")
Some Toast and toe jam, anyone? (Deee-lish!) So, what’s feltching? Finger looking good? ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/14 "2000-01-22T06:26:00Z")
Ok, SqrlCub, so what is “snowballing” and “feltching”. C’mon, you can tell us! You’re among friends, here! ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/15 "2000-01-21T19:25:00Z")
Jinx, write to me at [paganbearcub@hotmail.com](mailto:paganbearcub@hotmail.com) and I will tell you. I don’t think too many people here want to hear what feltching and snowballing are again. HUGS! Sqrl * * * Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/16 "2000-01-21T20:10:00Z")
Trust me, you really DON’T want to know about felching. Now there’s a memory I wish I could repress. :::SHUDDER::: Keith * * * You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/17 "2000-01-21T20:17:00Z")
Don’t Connie and Raymond Marble suck each other’s toes in Waters’s PINK FLAMINGOS? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/18 "2000-01-21T20:28:00Z")
Sorry all…but you’re only half-right. > [@](#): > > **shrimp:** > verb. for sexual gratification, to lick, suck and kiss the toes. > [@](#): > > **felch:** > (British) verb. To suck or lick one’s recently deposited semen from the rectum. ## The source where I found those terms was a real eye-opener…just don’t ask what a ‘scat queen’ is. I never touched him, ref, honest! ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/19 "2000-01-21T20:32:00Z")
## “Eve, a fellow Waters fan!” —orangecakes Shrimping, felching, and now golden showers! 😃 Peace, mangeorge * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434/20 "2000-01-21T21:02:00Z")
Okay, I got a dumb one, what the heck is snowblowing? My friend and I thought it had to do with mints and fellatio but that doesn’t sound right. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrimping/6434.md?page=2)