Being a middle-aged, hopelessly unhip honky who works with a lot of young millennials of all races, I frequently cruise Urban Dictionary, to figure out just what the hell they’re talking about.
The other day, I got on to the fruitful and somewhat disturbing field of weird sex things. And now I’m suspicious. Also confused and, in some cases, horrified.
There appear to be a number of practices that seem…improbable. The “Cleveland Steamer”, for example, or the “strawberry shortcake”, or the “hot Carl” and the “frosty walrus”. No, I’m not about to include even a broken link to the definitions; if you’re curious, you can find them here. Suffice it to say that they refer either to defecating on or violently assaulting one’s partner during sex.
Now, the human mind is an amazingly complex thing, and I can understand the appeal of the taboo. A simple scat or rape fetish is not something I share, but I can see how such a thing can arise. I can even understand a fetish for being tied up, or spanked, or the fantasy of being raped. (Needless to say, I don’t think anyone enjoys being authentically raped.)
But I have a hard time imagining anyone out there really gets off on being punched in the stomach hard enough to eject semen through the nose, or having one’s lover poop on a piece of plastic wrap laid over one’s face. These things sound to me like the perfervid imaginations of a cadre of 12 year old boys trying to come up with the grossest thing they can.
So have you ever known anyone who’s actually done any of these things?
While I don’t find it impossible to believe that there are a small number of people who actually do stuff like that, I find it much easier to believe that there are people who enjoy making up names and descriptions of ridiculously nasty sexual practices.
Which kind of begs the question - just what IS normal?
I know I’m going to get burned by the gays but you have to wonder, is homosexuality maybe just another perversion but because enough people do it its considered normal? I mean are people into odd “fetishes” also “born that way”? At what point does something become acceptable enough that they get their own parade?
If they were just into ass, they could get that from the female persuasion.
I have one question; what’s the percentage of gay or lesbian people that go straight compared to the percentage of ‘straight’ people who go the other way?
Most of that shit on urban dictionary is made up crap, at least one sex act entry was an intentionally made up joke from a TV show(Venture Bros) making fun of these outlandish sex acts with silly names.
Are there people out there with feces fetishes? Sure of course, but it isn’t even close to a mainstream thing or even underground but probably more like 1 in 10,000 or so.
If enough people do something, then yes, it is considered normal. That’s what normal means!
People have been successfully fighting for rights for gay people for a long time now. The parades have not been bestowed upon them by a now-accepting society because they’ve reached a tipping point of the population, but are a part of that fight.
When you say “the gays,” you sound like a complete homophobe. If that’s your intention, carry on, but if not, try “gay people.”
Without getting too deeply into how I know: yes, there are people who get off on feces. Some are into merely the act of watching another defecate, others are more extreme and are into smearing it on one another, eating, it, what have you. It’s gross, it’s rare, but it’s a thing.
I don’t have any hard evidence, but my experiences of greater than 50 years has to count for something. I’ve encountered far greater straight people who come out of the closet (or who are on the down-low) than gay people going (and staying) straight.
Let’s move away from the ‘gays are weird’/‘no they aren’t, you’re a bigot’ circlejerk this thread is destined for.
I think sexual terms that have elaborate definitions are exaggerated. Do people do them? Maybe. I’ll admit finding out getting one’s “salad tossed” (analingus) was far more common, especially among African-americans than I initially believed.
But at the same time, I think a part of all of our sexuality is pushing boundaries and having taboos; having sex with people we shouldn’t, in places we shouldn’t, involving body parts that have no reason to go inside other body parts (docking?! eh, whatever floats your boat, I guess).
