Felching

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Felching is a human sexual behavior involving the licking or sucking of another person's anus.^[1] This practice involves a high health risk. In particular, it refers to the act of sucking semen out of the anus of one's partner. The semen has been ejaculated into the rectum via anal sex. The act of sucking the semen and then passing it, through mouth-to-mouth or open-mouth kissing, is often referred to as "snowballing"; although the latter is typically associated with semen ejaculated into a mouth from fellatio.

The word was subsequently used in the work of 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 tract 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 cartoon featuring John Q. Public felching "Mother Nature/Lady Liberty" after she has had anal sex with a Pravda-style cartoon capitalist.^[2] Williams produced a felching themed solo work in 1975 titled The Nectar of Satan.^[3]

[edit] Popular Culture

[edit] Film

John Waters features felching in his 2004 film A Dirty Shame.

[edit] Literature

In Chuck Palahniuk's book Invisible Monsters, one of the characters discusses felching.

[edit] Music

In the track "Insane" from his 2009 album Relapse, Eminem poses the listener with a question about felching:

Don't you know what felch means? (Yea)/Well then tell me, would you rather get felched or do the felching?/Fuck 'em in the ass suck the cum out while you're belching/Burp belch and go back for a second helping [1]

[edit] Popular Figures in Felching

Justin Lee-Gammage was the first man to popularise felching in his 1998 memoir "Felching and Me" in which he vividly described the experience of "sucking the cum out of a faggot's arse". Famous people Justin claims to have felched in his memoir include Princess Anne, Justin Lee-Collins, Nick Griffin, Anthony Steen, that black guy from Big Brother, Bill Oddie, John Suchet and Jeremy Clarkson. Princess Anne raised a lawsuit with his claims made in "Felching and Me" claiming it was not her, but her sister Liz Windsor with whom the felching occured.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• felching at the Dictionary of Sexual Terms.
• felch, felcher, and felching at Urban Dictionary.