Teabagging
Teabagging can have various meanings.
Teabagging as a sexual practice
As a sexual practice, "teabagging" refers to a man dipping his testicles into the mouth of his partner as a form of oral sex; thus his partner was "teabagged", as the practice vaguely resembles dipping a teabag in a cup of water. Sometimes teabagging is taken to specifically mean the act of a male stripper repeatedly tapping and grinding his testicles into a patron's forehead. In this case the patron was "teabagged."
Teabagging first entered pop culture in John Waters' cult film Pecker (as an act - the forehead variety of teabagging - banned in a particular male strip club). Waters discovered the practice at a Baltimore bar called the Atlantis. He also claims it has since been superseded by the related act of helicoptering, "where they whap-whap you in the face with their hard-on" [1]. The term was more recently seen on the television series Sex and the City and appeared again in the film Soul Plane, included in a list of sexual acts and later defined. It also appears in America (The Book) by the staff of The Daily Show and has been referenced on the television show by its host, Jon Stewart. It also appears as a kind of teenage party hoax in the movie In My Father's Den and in Brandon Vaughn's common acts of degradation DVD. It is featured in the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 1, episode 3). Finally, on July 30th 2002, the term was used several times on the air during a serious newscast when Captain Janks made a crank call.
A variant known as a roman helmet involves laying the penis along the person's nose while placing the testicles on their eyes, somewhat resembling the helmet of a Roman legionary. This can also be referred to as a gonzo in reference to the Muppet character Gonzo, who has a long, phallic nose.
Teabagging as a prank
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As a prank, teabagging can refer to the repeated dunking of a person restrained inside a bag into water. This is a common boys' boarding school prank. It should be noted that this predates any known usage of the term below.
Teabagging can also refer to a man placing his testicles on another person or object as a practical joke. This is sometimes known as cat-braining, after the appearance of the scrotum; an alternate term is hanging brain, a term also used as a level name in the computer game Marathon ∞. Teabagging is inflicted on someone who is either sleeping, unconscious, being held down by others or has been duct taped, and usually involves the man placing his testicles on the recipient's face or in his or her mouth. Photographs are often taken of this pose as a part of the prank in order to further humiliate the victim. This practice can potentially backfire when the victim unexpectedly wakes up and clenches down upon the "teabag" resulting in a painful shock to the offending person.
Video Games
The emulation or imitation of teabagging has become a common practice in many online multiplayer video games. The ability to make a character crouch has made this practice a rather common way for players to taunt and humiliate their opponents after a kill. The player will move their character on top of the victim's corpse and crouch on top of its head, sometimes repeatedly moving up and down. While it is most common in first person shooters, this practice has also appeared in some other videogame genres such as MMORPGs.
External links
- Teabagging in the Rotten Library.