Talk:Butt plug

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How about medical uses? See fx [1] (they seem to be called anal plugs in this case). Thue | talk 20:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Plugs as Punishment - Citation? Source? 2 eBaum's World 3 Picture Scale 4 Butt plug inventor 5 "Typical" butt plug 6 Extras about the butt plug 7 Legal slang 8 Inconsistent claims 9 references

[edit] Plugs as Punishment - Citation? Source?

Removed statement below - tangential/unimportant to discussion of sex toy, and provocative enough to require rigorous substantiation.

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Historically, butt plugs were often used as a way to humiliate or punish slaves. These plugs were generally large and were intended to cause pain upon insertion. Men who were crucified were often plugged; this was to prevent defecation whilst the man was hanging for several days.

21:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] eBaum's World

I'm removing the eBaum's World reference. I first heard of them in the mid-nineties in Mad, which is of course a pop culture-skewing magazine. I didn't know what they did, but the way the phrase was used seemed to assume that the reader did. Needless to say this predates eBaumsworld by a number of years. -Branddobbe 20:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture Scale

The pcitures here don't have any sense of scale. Maybe some should be shown with something next to them?

[edit] Butt plug inventor

Who invented the butt plug? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.72.255.215 (talk) 02:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] "Typical" butt plug

I've done my fair share of shopping for butt plugs, and I don't feel that the grey, barely tapered stick with the caption "A typical butt plug" is representative as such. There is usually a LOT more tapering, bulge, etc. Can someone change the picture to something more reasonable?

[edit] Extras about the butt plug

Butt plugs come in hundreds of different shapes for many different reasons. Mainly to stimulate certain regions or to accommodate the feeling of being full, which some people tend to enjoy. For examples of over a hundred shapes and sizes of such plugs you can explore any major adult retailer such as bbssm.com or the company manufacturers themselves. The most reknown are made by Doc Johnson, but the market has become quite huge for the plugs in themselves to where they are now fancied in the aspects of things, creatures, and even replicas that I don't even want to mention. Either way... butt plugs are an essential part of the sex toy industry, and if you enjoy experimenting and wouldn't mind feeling that filling sensation... or should I say, if you have a butt.... you should try plugging it. ;-)

Have fun.

[edit] Legal slang

I just watched an episode of House that made reference to the term "butt plug" as a legal slang for lawyer or the lawyers fee. Was this made up for the show, or is it genuine slang? JayKeaton 19:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, according to [2], "other sexually explicit nicknames for a lawyer include asshat, douchebag and Rick Santorum."--Cancun771 11:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistent claims

These should also never be used to stimulate any area other than the rectum, though they often are.

A butt plug is not necessarily confined to only anal stimulation.

These claims directly follow each other, and the latter one makes it sound like the first sentence was never in the article. ;-) I assume it has appeared due to incremental article updates, and weren't written at the same time by the same author. I think they should be somehow merged, maybe with the paragraph starting out with "A butt plug is not recommended for other use than anal due to the health risks, but some use them in other ways despite this after precautions, such as ..." — Northgrove 02:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] references

This article is pretty good, but needs references! Munchmuchmunch? (talk) 05:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)