I live in a bubble: is the term "golden showers" a common one?

[question everything]

for the appropriate occasions, of course, or was it invented to honor Mr. T?

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Short answer? Yes.

It's been around forever.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. It is also euphemistically called water sports.

There is also another genre of showers we shall not get into, lol.

[ismnotwasm]

2. It depends on how much porn one watches.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Which kinds, too.

[ismnotwasm]

16. I suppose there's that whole "sorting through chaff to find the wheat" thing too

If people aren't prepared for the, er, variety.

I mean furries? C'mon.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I always thought that was Millennials putting everyone on

I fear that this whole "it is getting increaingly difficult to tell actual reality from an elaborate practical joke" thing is only gonna get worse over the next four years, too.

[ismnotwasm]

27. Yeah--well interesting times and all that

Some of it has high entertainment value though...

[Warren DeMontague]

58. We had 8 years of a great President, best in my lifetime IMHO, so at least there's that.

[Maru Kitteh]

64. I find myself wishing I had recorded 4 years worth of random and mundane events

featuring the President - so I could maybe feign some kind of political dementia and fool myself into thinking he was still there.

Should have planned ahead I guess.

[question everything]

5. Gross. Why would anyone want to?

Oh, never mind..

[Warren DeMontague]

17. A lot of people are into weird shit that I simply dont fathom.

My philosophy is, as long as everyone's a consenting adult, pee away.

Just not on my floor.

[lillypaddle]

67. Sexuality covers a very broad spectrum

not a good idea to judge, and seems that you don't. Good for you.

[backscatter712]

28. Rule 34... n/t

[Warpy]

47. I got educated when I had a job clearing out student apartments for the next tenants

in Boston in the early 70s. For some reason, they always seemed to leave the porn stash behind, especially the niche porn and advanced kink.

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Shoulda held onto it.

Like star wars figurines, some of that stuff is probably sought-after collectors items, now.

[Warpy]

61. Nah, too many pages were stuck together.

Yeah, I wore gloves.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I am not personally familiar with the practice,

but I heard of it, with some amazement and dismay, many years ago; it was not invented for Mr. Tinkles (it would probably be called "orange showers" were that the case).

[WheelWalker]

6. There is no accounting for taste

[JoeOtterbein]

10. or smell !!!

[liberal N proud]

7. It is a fetishes of a sexual nature

Having someone piss on you or being the pisser. I have yet to see the excitement factor in it but it is out there with other fetishes of more or less kinkyness.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. In a bubble? HAAAAAA! Sorry, but that will not protect you unless you bring an umbrella.

[question everything]

14. LOL. More like: feets, don't fail me now

and run for the nearest exist..

[FreeState]

9. Extremely common in my community

40's something gay male in CA.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Depends

[mwooldri]

13. Always. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

12. It's an old one, exisiting in a culture participating in scat porn, smearing feces on one's body

[ismnotwasm]

19. Or eating it

Like the scenes in Pynchons "Gravity's Rainbow" that probably cost him the Pulitzer.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Yuck!

That's some next level shit.

[ismnotwasm]

25. People can be very strange with their fetishes.

[TreasonousBastard]

39. "Two Girls, One Cup"? That one I couldn't watch.

[ismnotwasm]

56. Bahahaha!

I've pictures of tattoos for that...

[lillypaddle]

68. The two (water sports and scat)

are entirely separate and have nothing to do with the other, save they are both kinks.

[putitinD]

15. I first heard the term back in Jr. High, 40 years ago.

[True Dough]

18. Don't worry OP, you're not alone!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. The term has been around a long time.

I heard that term as a kid decades ago.

I think it's considered a "vulgar" way to describe it, but maybe I'm wrong?

Don't feel bad. I always seemed to be the last person to have ever heard various sex-related terminology when I worked at a factory. A gay co-worker told another co-worker that he wanted to "toss my salad." I was informed and just walked away confused. I mentioned it days later to another co-worker and he busted out laughing, saying "You don't know what that means, do you?" He explained it and my initial reaction was, "That's unsanitary!!"

The factory co-workers always seemed to know the meaning of "duck butter" and all kinds of weird sex-related terminology before me. It was about the only thing most of them seemed "educated" about! Little else!

[Iggo]

31. If you think about it, that's about the nicest way to describe that activity.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. I guess so, now that I think about it.

[MrPurple]

37. the tossed salad man...

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[Buckeye_Democrat]

42. LOL! At least the interviewer didn't know what it meant either.

I thought it might be referencing something sexual when I first heard it, but the timing was bad because we had a food carry-in about a week earlier and I brought macaroni salad.

Lots of people there got a kick out of me not knowing about that stuff.

[3catwoman3]

55. You may have some competition for being last in street...

...knowledge. Some of the terms just used above are completely unfamiliar to me, despite being 65 and having spent my entire career in pediatrics. Not many discussions of sexual variety when examining babies.

Not sure I care to be enlightened.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

57. Sorry! Those co-workers had screwed up "intellectual" priorities.

It was the same factory that produced these mind-blowing stories (these aren't sexual):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8450692

I double-majored in math and physics, and I'm generally curious about all kinds of scholarly matters, so working there was a kind of torture for me.

[Eugene]

23. You must live a fairly straight-laced lifestyle.

The term is a familiar one on the kinky side.
It's a common fetish, especially in porn.

...not that I have experienced it personally.

[question everything]

32. Watching "it happened in Hollywood" with the rest of the gang from the U

more than 40 years ago was my last and only "experience."

Oh, forgot - we had the lascivious event at the U of Chicago - to "replace" those fancy prom nights - and "Deep Throat" was playing.

[Glimmer of Hope]

24. I read that Kim K performed a golden shower in the porn that made her famous.

That is how I learned about it. I can't be the only one!

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. I heard she was the one that got peed on

But she denied it.

[Glimmer of Hope]

44. She has no shame! Thanks for letting me know.

[Yavin4]

50. Not correct. There was no golden shower in her vid.

You're confusing her vid with R. Kelly's.

[90-percent]

26. Frank Zappa has a song about that

[SY BORG:]
Plooking too hard on me-e-e-e-e...

[JOE:]
Speak to me
Oh no...
The golden shower must have shorted out
His master circuit
He's, he's, oh my God
I must have plooked him...
Hey
To death...
Hey

[CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER:]
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...You have just destroyed
one model XOJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker.
And you're gonna have to pay for it!


from joes garage, 1979, a concept album about authoritarian government making music illegal.

-90% Jimmy

[Dr Hobbitstein]

40. He also mentioned it in Bobby Brown Goes Down.

[GoCubsGo]

54. Yeah, and there are a lot of similairities between Bobby Brown and Comrade Trump.

When I saw "golden showers" trending on Twitter, this song was the first thing that came to mind.

[mackdaddy]

52. Don Henly's 1989 song "Gimme What You Got" has a wild mention of this

Don Henly (cofounder of The Eagles) had many anti-Regan era songs.

This one section was are really future cast though from his 1989 End of Innocence Album"

Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover
It's all take and never give
All these trumped up towers
They're just golden showers
Where are people supposed to live?

[ismnotwasm]

59. Whoa--Prophetic!

[progressoid]

62. "trumped up towers"

Well, that's pretty direct.

[Iggo]

29. Learned the term when I was a kid way back in the 70s...

...so it's older than that.

But as far as I know, it doesn't mean anything else.

[LeftInTX]

30. I never heard of it until last week

Neither had my husband. (My husband is a high school principal, so he's somewhat knowledgeable about sexual slang)

[crazycatlady]

35. I had never heard of it

Urban Dictionary was my friend (also introduced me to the term teabagger).

If in doubt, check UD.

[HassleCat]

36. Been around a long time.

I heard it 50 years ago. When someone explained what it was, I was astonished anyone could enjoy something like that.

[LeftInTX]

38. Someone posted this in the lounge

It's from a 2008 movie

[TreasonousBastard]

43. I'm... I'm... Gobsmacked just doesn't quite do it.

[progressoid]

63. Ooookay.

[hrmjustin]

45. Golden showers do not lead to May Flowers!

[politicat]

46. I know it existed at least as far back as the 1st paperback printing of Everything You Ever Wanted

To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask. Which is/was a terrible book full of a lot of misinformation, misogyny, homophobia and just general jerkiness, but the term has existed since the late 60s at least. I first read it it my parents' copy of that book, more than 30 years ago.

[yuiyoshida]

48. Next: The GOLDEN SHOWER AWARD

don't make me post an image of the trophy!!

[coco22]

49. I read about it in the 70's..

through Xavier Hollander's "The Happy Hooker"

[briv1016]

51. 40+ replies and not one mention of R. Kelly or Dave Chappelle?

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/gslu5d/chappelle-s-show-r--kelly-s--piss-on-you--video

[Buckeye_Democrat]

53. LOL! BTW, Chappelle lives a few miles away from me in...

Yellow Springs, OH.

[Rstrstx]

65. Yes, they're beautiful

[lillypaddle]

66. It's common

particularly in the bdsm community. Just another kink.