{{short description|Sexual act}}
{{See also| Tea_Party_movement#"Teabagger"|l1="Teabagger" (epithet) in reference to participants in the US Tea Party movement}} thumb|A woman and man participating in 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 sex==
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">{{cite book|last1=MacLeod |first1=Debra |last2=MacLeod |first2=Don |title=Lip Service: A His and Hers Guide to the Art of Oral Sex & Seduction|publisher=Penguin Group|year=2009|pages=141–142|isbn=978-1-58542-696-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htH8JeSH9XwC&q=tea+bagging&pg=PA142}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Allison |first=Sadie |title=Oral Sex Tips and Techniques for Women |url=http://www.savvymiss.com/love-advice/sex-advice/sex-sex-sex-archive/article/eight-unique-oral-sex-techniques-6522.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103061618/http://www.savvymiss.com/love-advice/sex-advice/sex-sex-sex-archive/article/eight-unique-oral-sex-techniques-6522.html |archive-date=3 January 2015 |access-date=4 June 2014 |website=Savvy Miss}}</ref> And while some may enjoy the stimulation, not everyone responds to it.<ref>{{cite web |last=O'Connell |first=Ryan |date=September 6, 2010 |title=6 Things We Have To Stop Doing During Sex |url=http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-oconnell/2012/09/6-things-we-have-to-stop-doing-during-sex/ |access-date=4 June 2014 |website=Thought Catalog}}</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>{{cite book |last=Anderson |first=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LIEYGxBZdgC&q=teabagging&pg=PA94 |title=Sex Tips for Gay Guys |publisher=Macmillan |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-312-28873-0 |edition=reprint, illustrated |page=94}}</ref><ref name="Paget">{{cite book|last=Paget|first=Lou|title=How to be a great lover: girlfriend-to-girlfriend totally explicit techniques that will blow his mind|publisher=Random House|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/howtobegreatlove00page/page/148 148], 151|isbn=978-0-7679-0287-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/howtobegreatlove00page}}</ref> It has also been recommended as a form of foreplay or safer sex.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_250/275_love_tip.html|title=5 Fun Foreplay Positions|publisher=AskMen.com|access-date=24 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Fulbright|first=Yvonne K.|title=The Hot Guide to Safer Sex|publisher=Hunter House|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/hotguidetosafers0000fulb/page/217 217]|isbn=978-0-89793-407-7|url=https://archive.org/details/hotguidetosafers0000fulb|url-access=registration|quote=teabagging.}}</ref> It presents a low risk of transmission for many diseases, including HIV.<ref>{{cite web |last=Frascino|first=Bob|date=August 11, 2007 |title=Teabagging special... |url=http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SafeSex/Q186321.html |access-date=4 June 2014 |website=TheBody}}</ref>
Its gain in prominence has been attributed to its depiction in the 1998 film ''Pecker'', directed by John Waters.<ref name="Baker 2004">{{cite book |last=Baker |first=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/fantabulosadicti0000bake |title=Fantabulosa: The Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8264-7343-1 |edition=reprint |page=201 |url-access=registration}}</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">{{cite book|last=Gentry|first=Cynthia W.|title=The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy|publisher=Fair Winds|year=2005|page=293|isbn=1-59233-101-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8qtd61hoB8C&q=The+Bedside+Orgasm+Book:+365+Days+of+Sexual+Ecstasy+teabagging&pg=PA293}}</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>{{cite news |last=Savage |first=Dan |date=April 23, 2009 |title=Savage Love |work=The Stranger |url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=1473684 |access-date=April 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419114238/http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=1473684 |archive-date=April 19, 2010}}</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">{{cite book|last=Marx|first=Eve|title=What's Your Sexual IQ?|publisher=Citadel Press|year=2004|page=91|isbn=978-0-8065-2610-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYTThJX7Vq8C&q=teabagging&pg=PA85}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==In video games== {{Listen | image = 50px | help = no | filename = U.S. Marines teabagging each other in the barracks.webm | alt = | start= 7 | title = Marines teabagging | description = U.S. Marines demonstrating teabagging as commonly done in video games. }} 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>{{Cite web |last=Myers |first=Maddy |date=3 November 2017 |title=The Ups And Downs Of Teabagging In Pro Gaming |url=https://kotaku.com/the-ups-and-downs-of-teabagging-in-pro-gaming-1820089113 |access-date=2021-06-19 |website=Kotaku |language=en-us}}</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>{{Cite web |last=Meers |first=Whitney |date=2020-03-22 |title=Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Teabagging In Video Games |url=https://www.thegamer.com/teabagging-video-games/ |access-date=2021-06-19 |website=TheGamer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Teabagging|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/teabagging|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Know Your Meme|date=9 April 2018 }}</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>{{Cite web |last=Hou |first=Philip |date=2020-08-26 |title=Why Does Teabagging in Video Games Remain So Popular? |url=https://www.cbr.com/why-teabagging-popular-video-games/ |access-date=2021-06-19 |website=CBR |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Najib|first=Aminy|date=September 22, 2008|title=The Art and History of Tea Bagging|work=The Stony Brook Press|url=http://www.sbpress.com/2008/09/the-art-and-history-of-tea-bagging/|access-date=April 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713082325/http://www.sbpress.com/2008/09/the-art-and-history-of-tea-bagging/|archive-date=July 13, 2010}}</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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=penguinz0 |author-link=Cr1TiKaL |date=Jul 26, 2022 |title=These Bans Are Out of Control |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1E6drfsls |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=YouTube}}</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">{{Cite web |last=Amos |first=Andrew |date=Jul 25, 2022 |title=Riot bans two Valorant players after Galorants "teabagging" controversy |url=https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/riot-bans-two-valorant-players-after-galorants-teabagging-controversy-1883150/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=Dexerto |language=en}}</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" />
==Controversy== ===Social ridicule and harassment=== 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">{{cite web |author=Winegardner |first=Mark |date=November 14, 2012 |title=LSU-Bama Fans: The Last Time They Met |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/page/LSU-Bama-Fans/last-time-met |work=ESPN The Magazine}}</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">{{cite web|url=http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=6927&issue=950|title=Is forcible 'tea-bagging' just hazing?|last=DeKoven|first=Robert|date=9 March 2006|work=Gay and Lesbian Times|access-date=2009-11-02|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915174452/http://www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=6927&issue=950|archive-date=15 September 2008}}</ref> or puts his "crotch to his head".<ref name="Shacknews 2008-01-25">{{cite news |last=Linde |first=Aaron |date=25 January 2008 |title=Halo Inspires Schoolyard Bullies to Teabag Victims |work=Shacknews (from Asbury Park Press) |url=http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50966 |access-date=2009-10-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=John |date=April 4, 2006 |title=2nd Circuit Provides Handy Legal Definition of "Tea-Bagging" |url=http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003197.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070401133238/http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003197.html |archive-date=Apr 1, 2007 |access-date=2007-05-20 |website=The Legal Reader}}</ref>
==See also== *{{lang|ja-latn|Kanchō}} *{{Lang|nl|Swaffelen}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|teabag|teabagged|teabagging}}
{{sex}} {{Sexual slang}}
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