santorum

See also: Santorum

English

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Etymology

From the surname of former US Senator Rick Santorum (born 1958). After Santorum made statements comparing homosexuality to bestiality and opining that mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts, US columnist Dan Savage gathered input from his readers and held a contest for definitions to "memorialize the scandal". Savage set up a website which defined the term, and helped to promote it. See Campaign for the neologism "santorum" for further information.

Rick Santorum's surname, in turn, comes from Italian; see Santorum for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sanˈtɔːɹəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /sænˈtɔɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: san‧to‧rum

Noun

santorum (uncountable)

1. (neologism, sex, slang) A frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter as an occasional byproduct of anal sex. [from 21st c.]
   • 2005, Jack R. Dunn, Hard‎^[5], archived from the original on 12 September 2011, page 134:

     She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her ass, and throws it under the cot.

   • 2007, Robert J. Rubel, Squirms, Screams and Squirts: Now you can turn great sex into extraordinary sex, Nazca Plains, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:

     In the “for what it's worth” department, the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is called santorum.
     Safety Warning #6: Be particularly cautious where this santorum goes. As previously noted, you don't want to get any fecal matter in the vaginal area. Bad safety risk.

   • 2008, Richard J. Polney, “A Horrible Night of Research and Erudite Bloodletting”, in Christopher Pierce, editor, Men on the Edge: Dangerous Erotica, Hemdon: StarBooks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:

     Then, one of them broke ranks and rammed his blood-lubed fist straight up my ass and twisted hard, pulled it out and licked the santorum clean.

   • 2008, Austen James, Hate Starve Curse: A Disagreeable Man's Search for Nothingness in the Face of Everythingness, 1st edition, Broken Science, →ISBN, →OL, page 30:

     Any residents not burned alive in the fires or drowned in the flood will be made to drink a mixture of bodily fluids typically deposited in on the streets during Mardi Gras until death. The mixture should consist of (but is not limited to) sweat, snot, urine, saliva, tears, vomit, sexual fluids, and feces and santorum.

   • 2011 April 1, “Booty Sex”, in Icemilk (music), Sofa King Delicious‎^[6], ASIN B00510PZO0:

     I'll fuck you till my dick's dry / Squirt santorum in my eye

2. (neologism, slang, derogatory) Shit: rubbish, worthless matter, nonsense, bull. [from 21st c.]
   • 2004 February 5, Ian S., “Re: If Bush Wasn't A Deserter, What Was He?”, in alt.politics.democrats‎^[7] (Usenet), message-ID <tijUb.2347$Yj.960@lakeread02>:

     a lying sack of santorum.

   • 2005 June 29, Chris Linthompson, “Re: New word, "martinize"”, in talk.origins‎^[8] (Usenet), message-ID <1120058301.549994.211740@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>:

     I think this is a load of santorum.

   • 2006 January 18, "leftie", “Re: Hey Julia!”, in rec.music.gdead‎^[9] (Usenet), message-ID <dqmpqs$2mpp$1@agate.berkeley.edu>:

     What a bunch of santorum.

   • 2009, Jacques TwisT, Lady MaMarazz' "Ain't No Shame like the Fame Game"‎^[10], →ISBN, page 146:

     Those freakin' Devil's Advocate Moderators have no sense of decorum— They're just like a bunch of hungry predators... totally fuckin' full of fuckin' santorum!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:santorum.

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society most outrageous words of the year

Further reading

• American Dialect Society's Word of the Year, Most Outrageous category (2004)
• Spreading Santorum, the website created by Dan Savage to document the spread of the phenomenon
• Santorum, background at Rotten.com
• Santorum, analysis of the phenomenon at Know Your Meme by Rocketboom

Anagrams

• Rotumans, romaunts