Teabagging

Not to be confused with teabag.

Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his testicles in the mouth 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 vaguely resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.

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.

In the media

In the news

• Rachel Maddow reported on the conservative protest movement evoking the Boston Tea Party, with conservatives expressing a desire to "teabag the fools in D.C" and "teabag Obama on Facebook".

In video games

Simulations of teabagging are often used in video games, specifically 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.

• In Saints Row 2, one of the taunts made is a teabag.

Teabagging in Pop Culture

• 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."
• On the television series Sex and the City, Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, explained the practice of teabagging to her friends quite blatantly and loudly in a crowded restaurant in the episode "A Woman's Right to Shoes".
• 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.
• We Are Klang's song "First Kiss" contains the line "... and a lollipop man started teabagging me" followed by a mimed description.
• 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 1998 film, "Pecker".
• In the television show Kenny vs. Spenny during a humiliation, both Kenny and Spenny were teabagged by the crew members after a draw on a competition.
• In the television show My Name Is Earl in the episode "Girl Earl," a grocery store bagger (Played by Jon Heder) 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.
• 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.