# Train: As a sex term? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 22, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450 "2002-03-22T00:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/1 "2002-03-22T00:01:40Z")
I have seen on some films & tv discussion of something called ‘Train’, no, not teaching. It seems to be a teenager sex term. e.g. ‘Im going to train your girlfriend’. What does it mean & what do they do? ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/2 "2002-03-22T00:06:00Z")
Um, you can only do it with a girlfriend if she’s the “locomotive”. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/3 "2002-03-22T00:07:50Z")
Think of a train and boxcars…one boxcar up front (man), one boxcar in middle (woman), one boxcar in back (man). Basically (and from my understanding) it means engaging a woman in both oral and vaginal sex (although anal may be as well) Could have a variety of connotations as well…thats why terms like these are invented for insults. Usually making something this vague will cause the insultee to think of the worst thing he or she can. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/4 "2002-03-22T00:13:42Z")
Dunno, train, tunnel maybe? Chuff, chuff, chuff, WoooooOOOH? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/5 "2002-03-22T00:14:04Z")
Actually, what \*\* TigoleBitties\*\* describes sounds like “fingercuffs” to me. As I understood it, “train” means a bunch of guys line up single file and take turns doing the girl doggie-style. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/6 "2002-03-22T00:14:28Z")
**TigoleBitties** , maybe I’m confused, but I think “D.P.”- “Double Penetration”-is typically the term for what you have described. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/7 "2002-03-22T00:21:47Z")
As I said…its subjective What one calls ‘snowballing’ one would call ‘whitekiss’ One calls ‘DP’…another calls ‘double dip’ One calls ‘studhorse’…many call ‘TigoleBitties’ Tomatoe…tomato ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/8 "2002-03-22T02:31:42Z")
I’ve always understood a train to be like **Crunchy Frog** ’s definition. As for it being a teenage term, I’ve been using that slang term for at least fifteen years (I think I first heard it used by Nick Nolte in a movie, but am unsure). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/9 "2002-03-22T02:39:30Z")
“Pulling a train” was slang for “gang bang.” I first read it in one of the [O.C. and Stiggs](http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/oc&stiggs/sbocs.html) O.C. and Stiggs stories in the National Lampoon in the late 70s (O.C. and Stiggs were a precursor of Bevis and Butthead, though less tame. Strangely enough, Robert Altman made a movie with the characters). ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/10 "2002-03-22T02:47:15Z")
Yeah, what **Crunchy Frog** said. Usually called “pulling a train” when I was a kid (late 50’s). More fantasized about than actually done, at least in my teenager circle. 🙂 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/11 "2002-03-22T03:01:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Chuff, chuff, chuff, WoooooOOOH? Hell, that’s funny! Now I’m gonna be walking around tomorrow saying “Chuff, chuff, chuff, WoooooOOOH, Chuff, chuff, chuff, WoooooOOOH!” to myself. Great! Chuff, chuff, chuff, WoooooOOOH? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/12 "2002-03-22T06:45:03Z")
When I was in 9th grade sex education class in 1974 in my Catholic high school, one day they brought in the priest to talk sex. This was one of the “hip” priests they had in those days. He concluded the sex talk by advising the guys to go out and get laid. One of the kids asked him about “nymphomania.” He mentioned two girls he had known who were notorious nymphomaniacs: guys had nicknamed them “Jane the Train” and “Pam the Ram.” We all enjoyed a chuckle. But I never quite figured out “Jane the Train.” Until now… ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/13 "2002-03-22T13:00:34Z")
Used at my college in the early-mid 80s to mean 1 woman, many men. It tells you something that a) the stories were always about attractive women, b) we believed the stories we heard and c) it was always assumed to be consensual on the part of the woman. These events allegedly occurred at frat parties (never the ones I went to, unless I just wasn’t let in on the secret), where no-one was really in a condition to consent. The one case where it was widely known to have occurred resulted in a state police search of the frat house and a disintegration for 1 or 2 years of the frat in question. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/14 "2002-03-22T13:44:44Z")
Porn star Houston holds the record for pulling the biggest train. (position doesn’t matter). Check out some lyrics by “Luke Skyywalker” (I think that’s the spelling.) _Me and my home slice we play this game Some call it “Amtrak” we call it the train…_ ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/15 "2002-03-22T13:54:53Z")
Joseph Wambaugh’s Choir Boys used train to mean one woman and a bunch of guys lined up taking turns. It is also in the movie. Kinky Friedman’s Roadkill also used the train term to mean the exact same thing. Certainly, in the 70’s and 80’s, to pull a train was commonly understood to mean a woman that had sex with a number of guys one after the other. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/16 "2002-03-22T15:14:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mangeorge \* > \*\*Yeah, what **Crunchy Frog** said. > Usually called “pulling a train” when I was a kid (late 50’s). More fantasized about than actually done, at least in my teenager circle. 🙂 > Peace, > mangeorge \*\* Also documented by Hunter S. Thompson in “Hell’s Angels” ca. 1965 Group sex/gang rape was called “pulling the Angel train.” ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/17 "2002-03-22T15:26:40Z")
…And apparently we can play “Pin the Period on the Sentence” with my last post… ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/18 "2002-03-22T15:40:18Z")
Thank you, Handy, I was wondering this too, for years, but was too embarrassed to ask. I first heard it in the movie _Metropolitan_, where one of the preppie guys remarks, of a certain girl, “…They talked her into pulling a train…” I always wondered what sort of kinky preppie sex it referred to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/19 "2002-03-22T15:57:00Z")
My connotation of “Train” is gang bang. I suggest we go to an expert, but **heatherlee** ’s been off the boards for a while… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450/20 "2002-03-22T17:45:48Z")
It never seems to be used as a very nice thing to do to a woman, so one women & lots of men seems about right. I was thinking about a gay practice called ‘daisy chaining’, which would look more like a train. One guy in front, a guy behind him, then another guy behind that guy, Etc until they form a circle I guess. Never seen it myself,just read about it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/train-as-a-sex-term/99450.md?page=2)