Teabagging

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Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth^[1] or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.^[2][3]

Teabagging is also an erotic activity used within the context of BDSM and male dominance, with a dominant man teabagging his submissive partner, either a woman or a man, as one variation of facesitting and/or as a means of inflicting erotic humiliation.

[edit] The practice

An example of teabagging is shown in the movie Pecker by John Waters,^[4][5] which showed a male stripper repeatedly striking a man's forehead, and purportedly introduced the practice of teabagging to a wider audience.^[4]

It has also been reported as a practice in hazing^[6]. This is described in an article by Robert DeKoven from Gay and Lesbian Times.^[7]

One such story involved what school officials termed a hazing incident, which involved three varsity wrestlers and three coaches at Argo Community High School near Chicago. The school suspended the wrestlers and coaches for a hazing incident that involved the “tea-bagging” of several freshman wrestlers. Cyd Zeigler Jr. reports that the incident occurred on a bus trip home last year on Dec. 1. ... According to the Daily Southtown, the three varsity wrestlers pulled freshmen, one by one, to the back of the bus. There, two of the boys held each boy down as the third boy shoved his testicles in the freshman’s face.

[edit] In popular culture

Television

• On the television series Sex and the City, Samantha Jones loudly explained the practice of teabagging to her friends in a crowded restaurant in the episode "A Woman's Right to Shoes".^[1]
• When Robert Knepper, whose character on Prison Break is nicknamed T-Bag, appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly on January 30, 2007 he began to recount how he learned what the name meant, but was cut off by host Kelly Ripa, who quickly cut to a commercial break.
• In the NBC crime-drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Heat", a male murder suspect was said to have teabagged his college fraternity before being thrown out of it.
• In the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the characters Dennis and Mac often speak of teabagging Rickety Cricket in high school, and continually do so off and on. Almost all the characters have made the threat of teabagging one another while asleep at some point in the show's history.
• In the television show Kenny vs. Spenny during a humiliation, both Kenny and Spenny were teabagged by two men after a draw on a competition.
• In the television show My Name Is Earl in the episode "Girl Earl," a grocery store bagger returns home to find his house vandalized, and robbed of all his furniture and belongings. He then sees spray painted on the wall across from him the line, "Teabagger, get it?"
• In the television series Family Guy, Stewie Griffin asks if Dylan would like to "teabag" him at his Naked Tea Party.
• Also in Family Guy, from the episode "Stewie Kills Lois", Stewie asks Rupert if he would like to ride the teabags and quickly corrects himself and says teacups, then repeats the word "teabags".
• In The Simpsons episode "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" Homer teabags a fallen enemy on Halo 3 at his new apartment.

Films

• In the comedy film Soul Plane, Tom Arnold wants to know what teabagging is after his daughter mentions it to him.
• The John Waters film A Dirty Shame (2004) makes several references to teabagging as does his film Pecker (1998).
• In the movie "Step Brothers" starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (2008) one of the actors is tea-bagging a drumset.

Music

• One track on rapper Ludacris' 2004 album Chicken & Beer is a skit labeled "T Baggin'". It is a parody of phone messages that require the dialer to press a number for a service. It says, "If you woke up with a hangover and a pair of hairy balls on your forehead, press "7". You pressed "7". You've just been victimized and introduced to a moral crime known as "teabaggin'". We suggest you promptly hang up the phone, beat the ass of any white guys you hung out with last night, and find and destroy all photos before they appear on the Internet. Thank you for calling. Good luck. Goodbye."
• We Are Klang's song "First Kiss" contains the line "... and a lollipop man started teabagging me" followed by a mimed description.

Games

• The MMORPG City of Heroes allows the player to engage in a "teabag" emote. However, this involves the character producing a cup and saucer of tea and stirring it with a literal tea bag.
• Simulations of teabagging are often used in video games, specifically multiplayer first person shooters such as Counter-Strike, the Battlefield series of games, Call of Duty, and Halo. "Teabagging" is performed by repeatedly crouching down - a common movement in FPSs -on top of an enemy corpse. The act is a form of victory dance to show ownership and to humiliate an enemy player. Certain player groups (often referred to as clans) find the act offensive and therefore forbid its use on game servers they operate.^{[citation needed]}
• In Saints Row 2, one of the taunts made is a teabag.

Radio

• In The Penny Dreadfuls radio show Series 2 Episode 4, after lying to the Government about his brother Percius in order to ruin his reputation, Lucius Faversham says "I think my brother is about to find himself in some very hot water. I am... teabagging him if you will."

[edit] 2009 Tea Party protests

A protester's sign at the April 15, 2009 Hartford, Connecticut Tea Party reads: "Teabag Washington? They have way too many NUTS Already!"

During the 2009 Tea Party protests against the tax policies of US President Barack Obama, David Weigel of The Washington Independent photographed a protester holding a sign that read "Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You."^[8] The use of the phrase "tea bag" was used by others including Fox News Reporter Griff Jenkins and reteaparty.org. Salon.com, however, pointed out that "teabagging" has long had another meaning.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

The double meaning of the phrase drew criticism and mockery from MSNBC's David Shuster who on April 13, accused the protesters of "going nuts for it" and "whip[ping] out the festivities"; wanting to "give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." He argued that "the people who came up with it are a familiar circle of Republicans including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of whom have firm support from right wing financiers and lobbyists." and that "the Fox News Channel, including Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, both are looking forward to an up close and personal taste of teabagging themselves." He concluded, saying that "If you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you're going to need a Dick Armey."^[14] On April 13,^[15] 14,^[16] and 15,^[17] MSNBC's Rachel Maddow made similar remarks. On April 14^[18] and 15,^[19] MSNBC's Keith Olbermann made remarks in the same vein, and on April 15, CNN's Anderson Cooper said "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."^[20][21]

[edit] Other uses

• In windsurfing and other watersports, an individual is "teabagged" when they fall beneath the water of a choppy wave.^[4]

[edit] References

Look up teabag or teabagging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

More or better citations are needed. (January 2009)