Felching

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For the town, see Felch Township, Michigan. For the nineteenth-century politician, see Alpheus Felch. For fictional company Felcher & Sons, see Terry Tate: Office Linebacker.

Felching is a sexual practice in which semen or other fluids are sucked out of the vagina or anus of a partner. The act of an individual sucking the semen and then passing it, mouth to mouth, is referred to as "snowballing".

Felching can also mean the licking or sucking of another person's anus, similar to the act of a rimjob.

[edit] Cultural references

The earliest appearance of the word appears to have been in the work of Zap Comix underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, "Spain" Rodriguez, Robert Williams in 1975. The Zap collective published two sexually themed comic books, Snatch and Jiz and decided to continue pushing the envelope by publishing a book named Felch . According to Williams:

“ OK, since we didn’t get in any trouble with Snatch and Jiz, and a couple of these other comics, I was partying one night with Crumbo, Wilson and these other guys. And Wilson mentioned to me, he says, "I was talking to Ken Weaver and he had this real interesting word." I said what, "what it?" A word called "felch." I said, "what does that mean?" He said, "it is a real old term and it means orally withdrawing semen from someone’s lower digestive tract after having anal sex." I said, "there’s a word for something like that?" That’s incredible that not only is there a word like that, but it has a provenance. Hell yeah, we’re going to do a felch comic. So I talked to Crumb, "yeah we’re going to do a felch comic." ”

Crumbo's sincere contribution was a parody of an editorial cartoons featuring "John Q. Public" felching "Mother Nature/Lady Liberty" after she has had anal sex with a Pravda-style "rich man".[1] Williams produced a felching themed solo work in 1975 titled The Nectar of Satan.[2]

The term has appeared in several films, such as John Waters' movie A Dirty Shame. Big Gay Al's pianist in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was playing an instrument made by Felcher & Sons. Captain Hero, from the cartoon show "Drawn Together," confronts a villain named the "Mad Felcher" in the episode "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine." - when he first hears that the villain's nearby, he references the act, exclaiming ""The Mad Felcher? That guy sucks ass!". The spoof Johnny English (2003) includes a minor character named Felch. "Felch" appears on one of the T-shirts in Mikel B. Anderson's Alone in the T-Shirt Zone, worn by Anderson's character.

In an episode of the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, in a scene in a hardware store the shopkeeper and customer discuss various innuendo ridden items including "Felching Pens", apparently unaware of the sexual connotations of their jargon.

In the film Dumb & Dumber, Lloyd and Harry have an argument in a hot tub over a past love they shared named "Fraida Felcher."

In the 1994 film Clerks, a customer of the main character is nicknamed "Snowball", due to his practice of the same name.

One of Ben Stiller's early roles, in a 1987 episode of Miami Vice, was Fast Eddie Felcher, a fast-talking peddler of religious paraphernalia.

In Chuck Palahniuk's novel Invisible Monsters, the main character explains the meaning of this word to her parents at Thanksgiving dinner.[3]

In the Australian sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, the Nihilist character Sigmond usually holds a straw in his right hand. We are later told that this straw is for felching.

In an advertising campaign run by Reebok, Office Linebacker Terry Tate works for a company named "Felcher & Sons."

During a skit on the sketch comedy series "Mr. Show" one of the horses running in the Kentucky Derby is named "Old Felcher."

Several episodes of "All in the Family" make reference to the Bunker's minister, the "Reverend Felcher".

In Gaspar Noé's 2002 film "Irreversible", the gay sex club "Rectum" is described as a 'felching club' by a transsexual prostitute.

In a TV documentary "Punx Picnic", first broadcast in 2001 as part of Channel 4's "The Other Side" series, the main subject was lead singer of punk rock band Bus Station Loonies "Chris Felcher" (real name Chris Willsher b.1971).

In the United Kingdom felching by use of a straw or tube is known as Shrimping[4].

In common New Zealand culture to "Pull a Hamption" refers to felching one's brother.

[edit] Use in Language

Being a verb, Felching suggests an action being performed. In conversation, you would construct a sentance around Felching, thus:

Joseph: " Luke gave me an awesome felchjob last night! ". Lewis: " You're so lucky, I've always wanted to felch Millar! ".

[edit] References

  1. ^ Robert Crumb: The Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 10. Fantagraphics Books, 1993. ISBN 1-56097137-1. Reproduction of cartoon from "Felch Cumix" 1975.
  2. ^ Robert Williams. Robert Williams, 'Underground(s)'. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
  3. ^ Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. ISBN 978-0393319293.
  4. ^ http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/shrimping