“Even, there were objections to straight guys getting their own name for buttfucking, because maybe it walled off the kind of buttfucking they were doing, and I can see that.” “New pegging is anyone fucking anyone anywhere with a dildo. “Pegging classic is when a woman fucks a man in the ass with a dildo,” Savage said. In the years since the creation of the term, the definition of pegging has expanded to include all genders and sexualities, as long as someone’s having anal sex with a strap-on. Would yall let Rihanna peg you? This is a safe space.” The tweet went viral, with thousands of likes and responses from male fans sharing their fantasies, some serious, some joking about getting topped by the pop star. It needed a name, a short one, percussive, as with all good sex slang, and my readers gave it to me.”Īnd in 2019, a tweet from a Rihanna fan asked, “Fellas… be honest.
Here’s a twelve-word phrase I keep having to use. “This was when my column was only in print,” he said in an interview with BuzzFeed News, “and every time someone said, ‘I’m a straight guy and I want to get fucked in the ass with a dildo,’ it took up a lot of space! Back in the day, you would cut ‘that’s and ‘the’s, anything to get it down to word count. The term “pegging” is a recent addition to our sexual vocabulary, one that sex columnist Dan Savage helped coin in the early 2000s. “My favorite part of the outreach in general was people telling me the video led to them getting pegged or pegging their partner.” For an act that has long been treated as taboo, how did we get here? Over 400 strangers reached out to peg me,” he said. “My thought process was that if I wanted it and was embarrassed to say it, so did other people.” The vulnerability struck a chord. “I was trying to think of things that I genuinely wanted but might be embarrassed to tell other people about,” said Max Zavidow, a 24-year-old, New York–based comedian and TikTok creator whose video has amassed nearly 2 million likes since April. Back in April, a TikTok of a group of young men roaming the streets chanting, “What do we want?” “To get pegged!” And, “How do we do it?” “By finding women who are down!” went viral. Sex and the City popularized rabbit-style vibrators, millennials normalized eating ass, and now pegging, a word referring to the act of anal penetration with a strap-on dildo, appears to be having a moment. The right PR at the right time can launch certain sex acts into to the forefront of discourse and onto our bedroom menus.