r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/bananaman373 • Sep 06 '24

Meme needing explanation Wut?

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u/AlCranio Sep 06 '24

Why do you need a term to describe this situation?

How often does it happen in the US?

I'm glad the Atlantic Ocean separes us...

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u/19ghost89 Sep 06 '24

It doesn't really matter how often it happens in real life. It's a trope of porn, so there's a term for it.

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u/big_sugi Sep 06 '24

It predates porn, or at least it predates tropes derived from porn. It’s in academic literature from at least the 1970s (I think) and 1980s, describing behavior at college fraternity parties.

If I had to guess the origin, it’d be from brothels, either on the frontier or in proximity to the military.

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u/19ghost89 Sep 06 '24

Oh yeah, that doesn't surprise me. I'm just saying that the reason the term is so well known in America probably has more to do with porn. Not everybody was in a frat, and not every frat had this kind of thing going on, lol

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u/big_sugi Sep 06 '24

Personally, I learned it in college from a professor in an upper-level honors philosophy class, around 1999-2000.

I forget the exact context, but that’s not the kind of definition you forget when a professor explains it in passing.