# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/81 "2006-04-02T00:27:34Z")
What? No love for the Rusty Trombone? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/82 "2006-04-02T00:32:30Z")
Suzy Creamcheese also declares, at the start of _Absolutely Free_: **I don’t do publicity balling for you anymore.** (from the album [We’re Only In It For The Money](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57A1FDD46A87F20D79C3053CBBB72E00DDB51F8813E23454D92BB345C910E7ED749A0DAB0B8B671AB78B0FD2EA45C43D4C0EF5EF6DD662D5DF0&sql=10:84rz287c054a), by The Mothers Of Invention ---
**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:** [April 2, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/83 "2006-04-02T00:47:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What? No love for the Rusty Trombone? Au contraire…there’s MUCH love for the rusty trombone. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/84 "2006-04-02T15:05:00Z")
Maybe we’re over-analyzing this. Maybe Britney was just saying she likes it doggy style. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/85 "2006-04-02T15:15:11Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > “Loose Lucy is my delight > She comes runnin’ and we ball all night.” > -Grateful Dead, _Loose Lucy_ > > That’s the first one that came to mind, but I’m sure there are tons of others. “Balling” for sex is at least from the 40’s - by the time Little Richard used it in Good Golly Miss Molly in the 50’s it was very common black slang Good Golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball Good Golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball When you’re rockin’ and a rollin’, can’t hear your momma call Obviously, rock n’ roll was slang for sex in the 40’s and 50’s, too, and was only co-opted for music by Alan Freed to make “r&b” more palatable to white kids and their parents. Clearly, White America had no idea what the words really meant to those in the 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:** [April 2, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/86 "2006-04-02T17:53:40Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Maybe we’re over-analyzing this. Maybe Britney was just saying she likes it doggy style. [What makes you say that?](http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/87 "2006-04-03T13:54:14Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > You people made me go do research, for SHAME! 😉 > > Anywho, according to [UrbanDictionary.com](http://UrbanDictionary.com) [“ballin” can be defined a few ways, none of which involve the above mentioned sex act](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ballin) But look up “balling” at the same site. ---
**Author:** ![Dnseaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Dnseaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dnseaman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/88 "2016-04-01T01:36:55Z")
Poodleballing is a same sex act between two women who press their vaginas together and move to induce pleasure. This falls into a category of foreplay; there is no penetration and the positioning of torso and legs creates a diagonal position for the women. This act is spoken about far more than is carried out. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/89 "2016-04-01T14:39:33Z")
So what’s a Rusty Venture? I’ve gotten conflicting answers. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/90 "2016-04-01T14:48:55Z")
> [@Dnseaman](#): > > Poodleballing is a same sex act between two women who press their vaginas together and move to induce pleasure. This falls into a category of foreplay; there is no penetration and the positioning of torso and legs creates a diagonal position for the women. This act is spoken about far more than is carried out. So how would Karen \*\*and her husband \*\*have done this (see the OP)? And just because there’s no penetration, doesn’t mean it’s just foreplay. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/91 "2016-04-02T05:43:48Z")
> [@Dnseaman](#): > > Poodleballing is a same sex act between two women who press their vaginas together and move to induce pleasure. This falls into a category of foreplay; there is no penetration and the positioning of torso and legs creates a diagonal position for the women. This act is spoken about far more than is carried out. I thought that was scissoring (unless I’m misunderstanding your description). ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/92 "2016-04-02T11:35:46Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I thought that was scissoring (unless I’m misunderstanding your description). Well, ya’ see, what with all those short and curlies bumpin’ down there… :o ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/93 "2016-04-02T17:45:47Z")
Tribbing or tribadism is the term I’m familiar with. (Through scholarly research of course.) I never heard of poodle-balling. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/94 "2016-04-02T21:43:03Z")
Slang can shift a lot in 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/95 "2016-04-02T21:51:06Z")
Poodle balling is when you set up ten pins in an alley, and you roll a poodle at them and knock them down. Oh, wait, that’s poodle _bowling_. Never mind. :o ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/96 "2016-04-02T21:51:58Z")
> [@yingtongtiddleipo](#): > > He He He… > > I read the title as ‘Poodle Bowling’… > . > . > . > . > _giggle_ That’s what I thought of – a poodle version of Pug bowling: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKOQrz19Yg](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKOQrz19Yg) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/97 "2016-04-03T07:49:29Z")
Nothing to do with answering the OP’s question, but the term in question brought back memories of a song I heard incessantly when I lived in Cleveland Heights '80 – '84. The song was _[“Funky Poodle.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UII7RA2rIm4)_ Wild Horses used to play live Friday nights at a tiny bar on the corner of the block I lived on (an interesting patron blend of bikers, junkies, law and med students) crammed into a room about the size of a single-wide trailer, with no clear demarcation between stage and audience. The bar didn’t adhere to any type of patron limit ordinance, so they packed us in tighter than sardines (if you survived the evening without being knifed, or the victim of frotterage, you considered yourself lucky), but the town went wild with that song, so it was was worth the risk. I miss those days. If I have any point at all, it’s that\* “doin’ the Funky Poodle”\* would have been a funnier line in that sit-com than _“Poodle Balling”_ IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/98 "2016-04-10T22:50:11Z")
Could poodle balling be referring to anal beads? (Just picture ten or so poodle tails hooked together like a bead chain.) ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/99 "2016-04-11T00:33:01Z")
Ten years and we still don’t know for sure what poodle balling means. Taking _wayyyy_ longer than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/100 "2016-04-11T14:52:07Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Could poodle balling be referring to anal beads? (Just picture ten or so poodle tails hooked together like a bead chain.) Now all I picture is ten or so forlorn, manx looking poodles… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663.md?page=4)