# Um, poodle balling? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663 "2006-03-31T04:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/1 "2006-03-31T04:37:20Z")
So I’m sitting here, watching Britney Spears on Will and Grace, and she yells out that she’s a hardcore lesbian that’s into leather play, butch black women, skunking, and poodle ballin. Later, Karen says that she and her husband don’t even get to skunk or poodle ball anymore. So sad. ☹ After some searching, we uncovered the following definition of “skunking”: “SKUNKING: When you getting head, and just as you are about to shoot your load, you pull out and shoot down the center of her head, making her look like a skunk.” Is this about right? But the real question: what the hell is “poodle-ballin”? Inquiring minds must know! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/2 "2006-03-31T04:54:19Z")
Hm. As a walking dictionary on odd sexual manuvers, I don’t know. I’d love to know, though. …if you doubt my credentials… Do you know what the “omlette” is? Why, it’s when a guy busts his nut in a girls ear and folds it over. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/3 "2006-03-31T04:56:05Z")
Sir, you did not answer my question. . . . but I salute! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/4 "2006-03-31T05:00:21Z")
You have no idea how tempted I am to put this in GQ. No idea. Instead, since it is not asking for opinion, nor does it seem likely to spark light debate. . . Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/5 "2006-03-31T05:12:48Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Sir, you did not answer my question. > > . . . but I salute! I know I didn’t. I was merely showing my expertise on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/6 "2006-03-31T05:15:08Z")
No, I was actually saluting you for your answer! You rule. But thanks Frank, I wasn’t quite sure where this one would go. I too debated 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/7 "2006-03-31T05:22:43Z")
My favorite alledged sexual maneuver is The Dirty Sanchez. Just because I once knew a Mr. Sanchez who seemed like the kinda guy who would do that. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/8 "2006-03-31T05:29:03Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I too debated I’m sure you debated like a master. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/9 "2006-03-31T05:32:31Z")
Oh man, I was the captain of the debate team in highschool. At graduation, I thanked everyone for letting me master debate in for them day in and day out. I told them that although master debating is tiring, it was worth every lost minute. The staff was not amused. . . well, most of them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/10 "2006-03-31T06:17:47Z")
Thanks for the thread, **Diosa**. I too was wondering the same things. Thanks to tv and the internet, my knowledge of weird sexual practices has skyrocketed (like donkey punches, dirty sanchezes, cleveland steamers, arabian goggles, teabagging, skunking (that one’s a new addition - thanks, **Diosa** ), etc. ), but I still don’t know what poodle-balling is. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/11 "2006-03-31T06:20:45Z")
And you know, it occurs to me that my life experience is rarely enhanced by learning these things. I go look them up in an online sexual terms dictionary, and learn all kinds of things that I’d rather not know. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/12 "2006-03-31T06:52:57Z")
According to the Urban Dictionary entry under “poodle fucking,” Madonna screws a poodle in her Sex book. Maybe that’s related, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/13 "2006-03-31T06:56:52Z")
I don’t think it’s a sexual term at all. It has to do with topiary, i.e. forming a shrub into spheres, separated by the trunk (like a poodle’s tail). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/14 "2006-03-31T07:01:33Z")
Well, Panache45, that’s actually the only hit I could get on Google. But I mean, if leather-play, skunking, and butch black lesbians are all real :), why wouldn’t poodle ballin? WE MUST FIGHT IGNORANCE! And, I’m sorry: but when she said “Poodle ballinnnnnnnn” in that southern drawl. . . I cracked the hell up. Now my friends and I have a new saying. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/15 "2006-03-31T09:01:27Z")
Don’t kids today recognize “balling” as a synonym for f\*cking? Do you need a diagram? Frank Zappa lyrics? Where’s the confusion coming from? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/16 "2006-03-31T11:52:56Z")
Yeah, [answers.com](http://answers.com) says that “balling” is vulgar (no kidding) slang for sexual intercourse. So I guess it’s just ya good ol’ fashioned sex, with a poodle. ---
**Author:** ![yingtongtiddleipo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f6c823/32.png) [@yingtongtiddleipo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yingtongtiddleipo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/17 "2006-03-31T12:05:41Z")
He He He… I read the title as ‘Poodle Bowling’… . . . . _giggle_ ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/18 "2006-03-31T14:02:56Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Don’t kids today recognize “balling” as a synonym for f\*cking? > > Do you need a diagram? Frank Zappa lyrics? Where’s the confusion coming from? “Nuthin’ but a speck of cereal! C’mere, Frenchie!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/19 "2006-03-31T14:18:07Z")
So if “Skunking” is what you say it is **Diosa** , how is a “hardore” lesbian going to pull that off? Or any lesbian for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/20 "2006-03-31T15:43:53Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > So if “Skunking” is what you say it is **Diosa** , how is a “hardore” lesbian going to pull that off? Or any lesbian for that matter. Spooge substitute, obviously…the same way guys fake orgasms. Either a handful of egg whites or a conveniently placed syringe of old milk. Enjoy! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663.md?page=2)