that I'm prepared to endure another 10 1/2 months of tongue-in-cheek anal sex jokes

She's really pissed - she was hoping they'd be able to unload their loser governor

Vile is as vile does

Rick has been allocated the colour brown by Fox - the other counties in Iowa are mostly full of Mitt (supporters).

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012/iowa-caucus-jan-3

we really want Obama to win.

I'll admit up front I'm not a big fan of dirty humor. But also, think about it. It's one thing to make this joke when Santorum is just one of the "seven dwarfs" of this Republican go-round.

But if Santorum somehow (I doubt it) becomes Obama's actual challenger, this joke will have to be dropped. How is it going to look to the vast middle of the electorate?

How did the joke come to be? Well, Santorum was forthright in his opposition to gay marriage, so a gay sex columnist, in response, engineers a definition for Santorum's name that is a disgusting by-product of a sex act engaged in by gay men (and by straight couples who are are sexual trend-followers.) How will that joke look to middle-of-the-roaders?

I don't really care, because it's funny.

...and, it's not a joke so much, as it is a meme.

Some (but not all) gay men engage in anal sex.

Amongst straight couples, it seems to be a contemporary trend. Why is it growing? The only reason I can see is that anal sex has become almost de rigeur in straight porn -- it has become so, I suspect, because it is one of a number of ways that pornography has become increasingly misogynistic. And so now there are a lot of men nagging their female sex partners into it.

Let me get personal here: I'm a man. I've had full sexual intercourse with 20 women in my lifetime (I can't even believe it at this point, it has literally been years since I've had the chance.) I never engaged in anal sex with any of them. What's the point?

I mean seriously, what's the point? Anal sex is kind of messy (if it wasn't Santorum wouldn't mean what Santorum means now on the Google.) Also, women have vaginas. Also, women DON'T have prostates, which is allegedly the thing in the body that makes receiving anal sex more pleasurable than painful for some men.

because you can't get pregnant. The latter is the reason The Church was/is against it, because it is for pleasure, not for procreation.

I'm female and the point is that like any sex, it can be enjoyable. It can also be unenjoyable. But plenty of people have enjoyed it over the eons. Not a recent thing, no.

Depiction of anal sex on 510 BC Attic red-figure


From wiki:
"Greek courtesans, or hetaerae, are said to have frequently practiced heterosexual anal intercourse as a means of preventing pregnancy.[106] The acceptability of anal sex thus varied with the time-period and the location, as Ancient Greece spanned a long time and stretched over three continents and two major seas.
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Evidence suggestive of widespread heterosexual anal intercourse in a pre-modern culture can be found in the erotic vases, or stirrup-spout pots, made by the Moche people of Peru; in a survey[108] of a collection of these pots, it was found that 31 percent of them depicted heterosexual anal intercourse, more by far than any other sex act. Moche pottery of this type belonged to the world of the dead, which was believed to be a reversal of life. Thus the reverse of common practices was often portrayed. The Larco Museum houses an erotic gallery in which this pottery is showcased.
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The Mishneh Torah, a text considered authoritative by Orthodox Jewish sects,[116] states “since a man’s wife is permitted to him, he may act with her in any manner whatsoever. He may have intercourse with her whenever he so desires and kiss any organ of her body he wishes, and he may have intercourse with her naturally or unnaturally [traditionally, this refers to anal and oral sex], provided that he does not expend semen to no purpose. Nevertheless, it is an attribute of piety that a man should not act in this matter with levity and that he should sanctify himself at the time of intercourse.”


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/nov/02/gender.uk
"The French have always been good at sex as art. Like the best food, carnality is invested with intimations of the "au-delà" or the transcendental. Buggery, for instance, isn't just buggery. Done in the correct poetic framework it becomes Fauré's requiem, Renoir's umbrellas, the Versailles Hall of Mirrors, Last Tango in Paris."

Well, not the worst in the world. But you are pulling those facts and wisdom straight out of your ass, no pun intended.

Hey let's throw a trendy party, invite all the hipsters and trend-meisters we know. We'll all wear skinny jeans, drink martinis and have anal sex, just to be trendy!

if Santorum succeeds in banning birth control, straight couples will be having more anal sex as a result.

Santorum compared homosexual sex to bestiality and incest while speaking to a reporter. He went onto say that the priest controversy in the Catholic Church. He said that the scandal involved priests and post-pubescent men in "a basic homosexual relationship" (not child sexual abuse), which led the interviewer to ask if homosexuality should be outlawed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_controversy_regarding_homosexuality

That's different.

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Why wasn't the op hidden?

I was just eating diner and catching up on GD posts. When

Seriously. Every time we imply that Rick Santorum's last name can be used as a euphemism for foamy, shit-laden anal lube, we debase ourselves. Reminding people that, on the internet, Santorum can mean lube combined with feces may be amusing and smirk-worthy, but really, the "Santorum means shit-filled ass lube" meme has been repeated for years, and the idea that Santorum's name is slang for frothy feces and lube hasn't stopped values-conscious GOP primary voters from taking another look at the guy.

So please. Stop saying that "Santorum means frothy feces-filled lubricant", especially on the internet, where those hurtful words can be picked up and further spread by search engines.

(shameless stolen from DUer WarrenDeMontcan'tspellthat)

I keed

I keed.

I love the frothy mix.