Teabagging
Teabagging is a slang term for the sexual act involving placing the scrotum into the mouth of a sexual partner for sexual pleasure, or onto the face or head of another person, sometimes as a comedic device.
The name of the practice, when it is done in a repeated in-and-out motion, is derived from its passing resemblance to the dipping of a tea bag into a cup of hot water as a method of brewing tea. As a form of non-penetrative sex, it can be done for its own enjoyment or as foreplay.
Oral sexEdit
Along with the penis, the scrotum is sensitive and considered to be an erogenous zone. This makes varying degrees of stimulation an integral part of oral sex.<ref name="Lip Service">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> And while some may enjoy the stimulation, not everyone responds to it.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sex experts have suggested various techniques that the performer can use during fellatio to increase their partner's pleasure. These include gently sucking and tugging on the scrotum and use of lips to ensure minimal contact with their teeth.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Paget">Template:Cite book</ref> It has also been recommended as a form of foreplay or safer sex.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It presents a low risk of transmission for many diseases, including HIV.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Its gain in prominence has been attributed to its depiction in the 1998 film Pecker, directed by John Waters.<ref name="Baker 2004">Template:Cite book</ref> It has since become popular enough with couples to be discussed during an episode of the television series Sex and the City.<ref name="bedside">Template:Cite book</ref>
Sex and relationship experts have varying definitions on how the act is performed. According to columnist Dan Savage, the person whose scrotum is being stimulated is known as "the teabagger" and the one giving the stimulation is "the teabaggee": "A teabagger dips sack; a teabaggee receives dipped sack."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Some consider the act to be as simple as fellatio involving the scrotum.<ref name="Paget"/> Others consider the position to involve the man squatting over his reclined partner while the testicles are repeatedly raised and lowered into the mouth. Whether licking and fondling is considered teabagging was once debated on The Howard Stern Show.<ref name="Marx">Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
In video gamesEdit
Teabagging in video games involves a player character rapidly and repeatedly crouching over the corpse of another player-controlled character as a form of humiliation or to provoke the other player.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The practice likely originated from multiplayer communities in games such as Quake or Counter-Strike, and it became more prominent in later first-person shooter games like Halo: Combat Evolved.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The use of teabagging is now widespread in video game culture, although some gamers consider it to be an act of bad sportsmanship or harassment.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The act courted much controversy across June and July 2022 when two professional female Valorant players received suspensions by Riot Games for criticizing people who had compared the act to sexual assault. In addition to the suspensions, the players were also doxxed and faced real-world consequences.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The suspensions caused outrage in much of the Valorant and wider internet community, with various commentators calling the comparison to real-world sexual violence as "out of control" and "absurd".<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The player known as Dawn, who received a three-month suspension for voicing her opinion, said of the situation: "I have watched [sexual assault] happen in broad daylight. It is not something you can compare to crouching in a video game. I was visibly upset by this, as were hundreds of thousands of people, and replied under her thread expressing my frustrations and concerns."<ref name=":1" />
Social ridicule and harassmentEdit
Teabagging is not always carried out consensually, such as when it is done as a practical joke,<ref name="Baker 2004"/><ref>One example is performing the act on a person who is asleep with a wide open mouth.</ref> which, in some jurisdictions, is legally considered sexual assault or sexual battery.<ref name="ESPN 2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It has been practiced during hazing or bullying incidents, with reports including groups holding down victims while the perpetrator "shoved his testicles in [the victim's] face"<ref name="Gay and Lesbian Times">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or puts his "crotch to his head".<ref name="Shacknews 2008-01-25">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
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- Turkey slap