A GLOSSARY OF SEXUAL SLANG

Oh perish the use of the four-letter words

Whose meanings are never obscure!
The Angles and Saxons, those bawdy old birds,
Were vulgar, obscene, and impure.


But cherish the use of the weaseling phrase
That never quite says what you mean!
You'd better be known for your hypocrite ways
Than as vulgar, impure, and obscene.
(Anon.)

In our society it is not always easy to talk about sex. As we have seen
in this book, the current standard terms for sex organs and sexual
behavior are often pretentious, difficult to pronounce, imprecise, and
misleading, while the simpler, more graphic slang expressions are
considered "dirty" and cannot be used in polite conversation.
Furthermore, there is now a growing army of sexologists who are busy
coining new words and expressions every day, and who are confusing
not only the general public, but also each other with their various
cabalistic and neo-archaic professional jargons. At the same time, many
formerly silent sexual minorities are speaking out, trying to free
themselves from negative semantic labels or to give them a new,
positive meaning. As a result of all this, discussions often lead nowhere,
misunderstandings abound, and communication breaks down.


This is especially true for the communication between different age
groups. The older generation has been trained to speak "properly"
about sex, but most young people have an instinctive aversion against
"heavy" Greek and Latin terms, and they sense the prudery and cultural
snobbery which led to their official adoption. After all, when translated,
these terms often say neither more nor less than our suppressed Anglo-
Saxon words, and thus, from a purely logical standpoint, there is no
reason why they should be considered superior. Indeed, in almost any
area except sex the vernacular is preferred.


Most of our modern "dirty" words were once perfectly clean, and even
today many people find nothing wrong with them, but use them
regularly in private. At any rate, they are usually the only sexual terms
young people know, and it goes without saying that anyone who wants
to teach or counsel them must be familiar with their language. The
exclusive use of "four-letter words" in the classroom is hardly desirable,
but sometimes it can at least break the ice. By the same token, students
and confused persons who feel that they are being understood by their
teachers or counselors are more likely to ask those questions that really
trouble them.


Of course, as any intelligent student will soon discover, our sexual slang
also has serious shortcomings. While it is often forceful, vivid, and even
humorous, it can also be biased, narrow, and simpleminded. It does not
always help us to understand what it attempts to describe. In this
respect, some carefully chosen professional terms may prove much
more practical. Under the circumstances, it seems advisable to provide
both teachers and students with a double glossary of sexual standard
terms and sexual slang. Such glossary "works both ways" and can
therefore help them to bridge the "communication gap". It may also be
useful to doctors, social workers, police officers, and other professionals
in their work. Finally, it may be welcome to ordinary citizens who want
to understand modern "underground" literature or the "sex ads" in
certain magazines.


Obviously, the following brief glossary is not complete. New terms and
phrases are being invented all the time, and many old ones go out ot
fashion. Some slang expressions are also confined to particular
geographical regions or change their meaning from one region to
another. Still, the few words listed here can give the reader a first
impression of the "unofficial" sexual language in most of the United
States today.
STANDARD TERMS SLANG TERMS
I. THE HUMAN BODY


anus asshole, bung hole, butt hole
breasts boobs, headlights, knockers, tits
buttocks ass, behind, buns, butt, fanny, rear
clitoris button, clit
gonorrhea the clap, a dose, the drip, gleet, morning
drop, a strain, the whites
hymen cherry, maidenhead
menstruation the curse, wearing the rag
penis cock, dick, dong, joy stick, meat, organ,
pecker, peter, poker, prick, rod, tool,
wang, weenie
rectum ass
scrotum bag, sack
semen come, cream, cum, jism, load, love juice
syphilis bad blood, haircut, Old Joe, pox, sill,
syph
testicles balls, family jewels, gonads, gones, nuts
venereal disease social disease, VD
vagina (or vulva) bearded clam, bearded lady, beaver,
box, cunt, honey pot, manhole, muff,
pussy, quim, snatch, toolbox, twat

II. HUMAN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR

ambisexual(ity) AC/DC
an ambisexual person switch hitter, trade
anal intercourse assfucking, cornholing, the Greek way
anilingus (licking of the
anus)
reaming, ream job, rimming
condom French letter, love glove, raincoat,
rubber, safe, safety
cunnilingus cunt lapping, eating out, eating pussy,
French art, trenching, muff diving
ejaculation coming
ejaculation during sleep wet dream
to ejaculate to come, to shoot
erection boner, hard-on
fellatio blowing somebody, blow job,
cocksucking, doing somebody, French
art, trenching, going down on somebody,
sucking somebody
group sex daisy chain, gang bang, group grope
homosexual male cocksucker, fag, faggot, fruit, gay, homo,
nellie, pansy, queen, queer, sister
homosexual female dyke, lessie, lez
masturbation beating off, beating one's meat, hand
fuck, hand job, jacking off, jerking off,
pocket pool, rubbing off (females),
whacking off
prostitute male hustler, stud
prostitute female B-girl, hooker, lady of the evening,
streetwalker, working girl
sexually excited horny, hot, juicy (females), turned on
to have sexual intercourse to ball, to bang, to fuck, to get laid, to get
into somebody's pants, to get a piece, to
get a piece of ass, to get some tail, to
have the banana peeled, to hump, to lay
somebody, to make somebody, to make
out with somebody, to roll in the hay, to
rub bellies, to score, to screw


SLANG TERMS STANDARD TERMS

AC/DC ambisexual(ity)
ass buttocks or rectum
asshole anus (the rectal opening)
B&D Bondage and Discipline: sadism (see
also s/m)
B-girl a female prostitute
bad blood syphilis
bag scrotum
to ball to have sexual intercourse
to ball somebody to insert one's penis in either the vagina
or rectum of a sexual partner
balls testicles
to bang somebody to insert one's penis in either the vagina
or rectum of a sexual partner
bearded clam, bearded lady vulva or vagina
to beat off to masturbate
to beat one's meat to masturbate
beaver vulva or vagina
behind buttocks
to blow somebody to fellate somebody (to suck somebody's
penis)
blow job fellatio (sucking the penis)
boner erection
boobs breasts
bottom man a man who has a penis inserted in his
rectum
box vulva or vagina
broad girl
bull bitch, bull dyke a masculine looking lesbian
bung hole anus (the rectal opening)
buns buttocks
butch masculine looking
butt buttocks
butt hole anus (the rectal opening)
button clitoris
cherry hymen
chick girl
chicken a male adolescent
chicken hawk a man who prefers male adolescents as
sexual partners
circle jerk group masturbation
clap gonorrhea
clit clitoris
closet queen a male homosexual who does not admit
his homosexuality
cock penis
cocksucker a male homosexual
come semen
to come to have an orgasm
to come out (of the closet) to admit one's homosexuality
to cornhole somebody to insert one's penis in the rectum of a
sexual partner
cream semen
cum semen
cunt vagina or vulva
cunt lapping cunnilingus (sucking the vulva)
the curse menstruation
daisy chain group sex
dick penis
discipline sadism
to do somebody to suck somebody's sex organs
dong penis
a dose gonorrhea
drag clothing of the opposite sex
drag queen a male homosexual who sometimes
wears female clothes
the drip gonorrhea
dyke a female homosexual (lesbian)
to eat somebody to have oral intercourse
to eat somebody out to engage in cunnilingus (to suck
somebody's vulva)
to eat pussy to engage in cunnilingus (to suck
somebody's vulva)
fag, faggot a male homosexual
fag hag a woman who prefers the company of
male homosexuals
fairy a male homosexual
family jewels testicles
fanny buttocks
FFA "Fist Fuckers of America" i.e. men who
enjoy certain sadistic practices (see also
s/m)
fistfucking inserting a hind or fist into the rectum (a
dangerous practice that can lead to
serious injuries)
flagwaver exhibitionist
French active a person who sucks somebody's sex
organs
French art oral intercourse
French kiss an open-mouth kiss
French letter condom
French passive a person who has his or her sex organs
sucked
to french somebody to suck somebody's sex organs
fruit a male homosexual
fruit fly a woman who prefers the company of
male homosexuals
to fuck to have sexual intercourse
to fuck somebody to insert one's penis in either the vagina
or rectum of a sexual partner
gang bang group sex or gang rape (several persons
raping the same victim)
gay homosexual
to get into somebody's pants to have sexual intercourse
to get laid to have sexual intercourse
to get off to have an orgasm
to get a piece of ass to have sexual intercourse (not
necessarily anal intercourse)
to get some tail to have sexual intercourse
gleet gonorrhea
to go down on somebody to suck somebody's sex organs
golden shower urination on a person's body
gonads testicles
gones testicles
Greek active a man who inserts his penis in his
partner's rectum
Creek passive a person who has a penis inserted in the
rectum
the Greek way anal intercourse
group grope group sex
haircut syphilis
hand fuck masturbation
hand job masturbation
hard-on erection
to have the banana peeled to have sexual intercourse
head lights breasts
homo a male homosexual
honeypot vulva or vagina
hooker a female prostitute
horny sexually excited
hot sexually excited
to be hung to have a large penis
to hump somebody to insert one's penis in either the vagina
or the rectum of a sexual partner
hustler a male prostitute
to jack off to masturbate
to jerk off to masturbate
jism semen
john the customer of a prostitute
joy stick penis
juicy sexually excited (females)
to knock up to make pregnant
knockers breasts
lady of the evening a female prostitute
to lay somebody to have sexual intercourse
les, lessie, lez a female homosexual (lesbian)
load semen
love glove condom
love juice semen
maidenhead hymen
to make out to have sexual intercourse
to make somebody to have sexual intercourse
manhole vulva or vagina
meat penis
morning drop gonorrhea
M/S Master/Slave (A confusing
misinterpretation of s/m, since the master
is a sadist (s), the slave a masochist (m).
See also s/m and B/D)
muff vulva or vagina
muff diving cunnilingus (sucking the vulva)
nellie an effeminate male homosexual
nelly effeminate
nuts testicles
Old Joe syphilis
organ penis
pansy an effeminate male homosexual
pecker penis
peeping Tom voyeur (a man who watches people
undress or having sexual intercourse)
peter penis
prick penis
pocket pool masturbation
pox syphilis
pussy vulva or vagina
queen an effeminate male homosexual
queer homosexual
quim vulva or vagina
raincoat condom
to ream somebody to lick somebody's rectal opening (anus)
ream job anilingus (licking the rectal opening)
rear buttocks
rice queen a homosexual who prefers Asian
partners
to rim somebody to lick somebody's rectal opening (anus)
rod penis
to roll in the hay to have sexual intercourse
to rub bellies to have sexual intercourse
to rub off to masturbate (females)
rubber condom
sack scrotum
safe condom
safety condom
to score to have sexual intercourse
to screw to have sexual intercourse
to screw somebody to insert one's penis in either the vagina
or rectum oi a sexual partner
to shoot to ejaculate
short eyes child molester
siff (or syph) syphilis
sissy effeminate
sister a male homosexual
sixty-nine (69) simultaneous mutual oral intercourse
s/m sadistic/masochistic (See also M/S and
B/D)
snatch vulva or vagina
social disease venereal disease
soul kiss an open-mouth kiss
spade queen a homosexual who prefers black partners
steam queen a homosexual who frequents bath
houses
strain gonorrhea
streetwalker a female prostitute
stud 1. a sexually very active man or
2. a male prostitute
to suck somebody to fellate somebody
sugar daddy an older man who pays his sexual
partners
to swing 1. to be sexually promiscuous or
2. to engage in partner swapping
to swing both ways to engage in both heterosexual and
homosexual intercourse
swinger a sexually promiscuous person
swishy effeminate
switch hitter an ambisexual person
syph (or siff) syphilis
tea room public toilet
tea room queen a male homosexual who seeks partners
in public toilets
tits breasts
tool penis
tool box vulva or vagina
top man a man who inserts his penis in his
partner's rectum

trade a heterosexual, sometimes an
ambisexual man
trick 1. a casual sex partner or
2. a customer for prostitution
to trick to find a casual sex partner
to turn a trick to find a customer for prostitution
turned on sexually excited
TS a transsexual
TV a transvestite
twat vulva or vagina
VD venereal disease
versatile willing to engage in all forms of sexual
intercourse
wang penis
water sport urination on a person's body
wearing the rag having a menstruation, to menstruate
weenie penis
wet dream ejaculation during sleep
to whack off to masturbate
the whites gonorrhea, also leukorrhea
working girl a female prostitute