Felching
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Felching is a sexual practice in which semen is sucked out of another person's anus (with or without a straw). The individual sucking the semen may swallow it or pass it, mouth to mouth, to a partner. The colloquial term for the latter act is snowballing.
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[edit] Derived terms
- The term felching can also refer to the act of sucking a fluid other than semen (faeces or urine ect) from a person's anus. The fluid can then be squirted into the mouth of the sexual partner and shared between them.
- Felcher can be used as a derogatory term.
[edit] Cultural references
The earliest appearance of the word appears to have been in the work of the Zap Comix underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, "Spain" Rodriguez & Robert Williams in 1975. The Zap collective published two sexually themed comic books, Snatch and Jiz and decided to continue pushing the envelope by publishing a book named Felch . According to Williams:
| “ | OK, since we didn’t get in any trouble with Snatch and Jiz, and a couple of these other comics, I was partying one night with Crumb, Wilson and these other guys. And Wilson mentioned to me, he says, "I was talking to Ken Weaver and he had this real interesting word." I said what, "what it?" A word called "felch." I said, "what does that mean?" He said, "it is a real old term and it means orally withdrawing semen from someone’s lower digestive track after having anal sex." I said, "there’s a word for something like that?" That’s incredible that not only is there a word like that, but it has a provenance. Hell yeah, we’re going to do a felch comic. So I talked to Crumb, "yeah we’re going to do a felch comic." | ” |
Crumb's contribution was a parody of an editorial cartoons featuring "John Q. Public" felching "Mother Nature/Lady Liberty" after she has had anal sex with a Pravda-style "rich man".[1] Williams produced a felching themed solo work in 1975 titled The Nectar of Satan.[2]
The term appeared in several films, including the John Waters movie A Dirty Shame, starring Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, and Chris Isaak. Big Gay Al's pianist in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was playing an instrument made by Felcher & Sons.
In Chuck Palahniuk's novel Invisible Monsters, the main character explains the meaning of this word to her parents at Thanksgiving dinner.[3]
In the Australian sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, the Nihilist character Sigmond usually holds a straw in his right hand. We are later told that this straw is for felching.
[edit] References
- ^ Robert Crumb: The Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 10. Fantagraphics Books, 1993. ISBN 1-56097137-1. Reproduction of cartoon from "Felch Cumix" 1975.
- ^ Robert Williams. Robert Williams, 'Underground(s)'. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. Retrieved on December 2, 2006.
- ^ Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. ISBN 978-0393319293.
