Felching

Felching is a sexual practice involving the act of sucking semen out of the vagina or anus of one's partner after sex. The act of sucking the semen and then passing it, through mouth-to-mouth or open-mouth kissing, is often referred to as "snowballing"; although the latter is typically associated with semen ejaculated into a mouth from fellatio.

Felching may also refer to the alleged anal insertion of a small animal (usually a gerbil) for the purpose of sexual stimulation. (See also gerbiling.)

In This Film is Not Yet Rated, John Waters says, "No one has ever done felching.... I know a lot of perverts, and I don't know anyone who's done that."

Earliest appearance of the term

According to the 2003 draft entry for "felch" in the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest occurrence of the word in print appears to have been in The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture by Ronald A. Farrell in 1972.

FELTCH [sic] (v.): To use one's mouth or tongue on the anus of his partner; anilingus or male cunnilingus (syn. RIM).

The word was subsequently used 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 Crumb, 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."

Crumb's contribution was a parody of an editorial cartoon featuring John Q. Public felching "Mother Nature/Lady Liberty" after she has had anal sex with a Pravda-style cartoon capitalist. Williams produced a felching themed solo work in 1975 titled The Nectar of Satan.