Buttock cleavage
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Buttock cleavage is minor exposure of the buttocks and the anal cleft between them, often because of low slung trousers. Historically the "coin slot" (or "builder's bum" or "plumber butt") has been associated with overweight plumbers [1] (due to their frequent working position, exposing the area. In fact, in some languages, like Norwegian, it's referred to as the "plumber's crack"), or sometimes unattractive overweight men in general: For an example of the latter, in "Last Exit to Springfield," an episode of the animated television series The Simpsons, one character mischievously drops a pencil down the cleavage of the overweight character Homer Simpson. However, such cleavage has also been portrayed as attractive, in respect to slim women. In the 1999 comedy film Wild Wild West, Salma Hayek's character has a gap in the back of her clothes that reveals her cleavage, which the male characters see.
In the early 2000s it became fashionable for young women and men to expose their undergarments and buttocks in this way , often in tandem with low rise jeans [2] [3]. On Saturday Night Live, a skit was aired as a parody TV commercial for a product called Neutrogena Coin Slot Cream.
In her history of the 14th century, A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman makes reference to people scandalized by buttock cleavage in the mid-Medieval period in Europe.
