# Tying A Cherry Stem W/Your Tongue **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 2, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295 "2000-10-02T02:10:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sunrise\_4836](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@sunrise\_4836](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunrise_4836)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/1 "2000-10-02T02:10:02Z")
What is so sexy about being able to tie a cherry stem with your tongue? Is this a coordination game or hereditary? (I can’t roll my tongue) ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/2 "2000-10-02T02:13:25Z")
I’m sure it’s the implication. My ex was very good at it (tying stems 😉 ). I’ve done it a couple of times just to see how hard it was. It ain’t that easy. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/3 "2000-10-02T02:18:12Z")
If one is able to tie a knot in a cherry stem with their tongue they have a certain flexible control over their tongue that is not shared by all. Certain sexual foreplays involve the tongue and the ability to demonstrate a mastery of control over one’s tongue is taken by some to indicate that one might be particulary adept at providing pleasure to one’s partner. So, how’s it look, this early in the year? Ninth grade gonna be something you can handle? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/4 "2000-10-02T02:23:57Z")
Damn! I hate to post here but I have a serious observation. Both my ex’s could do that. I can’t. Could it be a female dominated thingy? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/5 "2000-10-02T02:39:27Z")
My wife can do it. I think I’ll keep her. :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/6 "2000-10-02T02:45:35Z")
I do it all the time. Really impresses people. The trick is to tie one up ahead of time and sneak it into your mouth with or before inserting an untied stem. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/7 "2000-10-02T03:20:44Z")
:rolleyes: [You said you were 38](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40544), and you can’t figure this one out? I guess this isn’t too surprising since you had to ask [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40440) question, too. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/8 "2000-10-02T03:56:01Z")
“My wife can do it. I think I’ll keep her” Wasn’t that essentially a line from one of the segments in Woody Allen’s “Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask?” I don’t ask that in a mean-spirited way, just informationally. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/9 "2000-10-02T06:00:19Z")
It’s a neat party trick, and we girls like to see guys try their damnedest to do it–and catching our attention when he does. I personally find it far more interesting when a man can lick his eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/10 "2000-10-02T09:32:24Z")
I’m always stepping on mine O! the _tongue_. Nevermind. I thought you meant shoelaces. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/11 "2000-10-02T13:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\* > So, how’s it look, this early in the year? Ninth grade gonna be something you can handle? \*\* That one is priceless. I just thought I’d let you know that I BWAAAAAHAAAAED! right out loud. 🙂 Zette ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/12 "2000-10-02T13:58:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*:rolleyes: [You said you were 38](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40544), and you can’t figure this one out? I guess this isn’t too surprising since you had to ask [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40440) question, too. \*\* How about these beauties? Wet dreams [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40466](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40466) Multiple Orgasms [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40375](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=40375) Then we’ve got cherry stem tying and “swallowing”. Buy a book already! “Sex for Dummies” comes to mind. Get a hobby, for Gods sake! There ARE sex You’re a mother of four boys and sexually ignorant? Come on… Zette ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/13 "2000-10-02T14:00:03Z")
Ooops! I meant to say “There ARE message boards specifically about sex. Try to find one” ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/14 "2000-10-02T15:44:18Z")
So if the wife can do it does that mean she can tie your penis in a knot too? ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/15 "2000-10-02T15:54:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*“My wife can do it. I think I’ll keep her” > > Wasn’t that essentially a line from one of the segments in Woody Allen’s “Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask?” > > I don’t ask that in a mean-spirited way, just informationally. \*\* I don’t know if that was a line from the movie, but a line from a 70’s Geritol commercial was “My wife. I think I’ll keep her.” which the Geritol company took a lot of heat for. ---
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/16 "2000-10-02T15:55:04Z")
Just to add, I’m male and I can do it, without cheating, **cooldude**. My girlfriend is way prettier than I, and after seeing me do this trick, no one wonders why she stays with me anymore. Not that that’s the real reason or anything… er… nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/17 "2000-10-02T15:59:10Z")
Samclem, the “My wife can do it. I think I’ll keep her” line harks back to a tv commercial from the mid 60s or early 70s. It was for some household miracle product like laundry detergent or cleanser or hamburger helper. The “man of the house” is so impressed with his wife (after she’s used said product) that he beamed to tha camera, “My wife… I think I’ll keep her.” The line became something of a rallying cry at the time because the then-stirring Women’s Lib movement took extreme offense at the implication that it was a man’s perogative to “own” his wife. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/18 "2000-10-02T16:00:31Z")
I was typing while Gilligan was posting. Damn you, little buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Thirsty4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Thirsty4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirsty4)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/19 "2000-10-02T16:32:28Z")
I would like to learn how to do this trick and have no idea on how you start. Are there certain steps involved? Do you clamp one end down with your teeth? Has anyone done one of those little micro-camera’s in one’s mouth when they are doing this stunt to show the rest of us how it is done? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295/20 "2000-10-02T17:42:17Z")
I had a friend in high school who could tie cherry stems with her tounge, but I could never manage it myself. I could get the cherry stem looped around and the loose end centered in the loop, but darned if I could ever figure out how to get the end pulled through the loop. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tying-a-cherry-stem-w-your-tongue/35295.md?page=2)