Sloppy seconds

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Sloppy seconds (or slops in Australian slang [1] ) is a slang phrase for when a man has sexual intercourse with a (female or male [2] ) partner shortly after that person has had intercourse with someone else, and is therefore wet or "sloppy". [3] [4] The phrase "buttered bun" is sometimes used to refer to said orifice. [5] [6] The practice is also referred to as a "wet deck". [7]

The term has since been stretched as a derogatory metaphor to demean someone having a relationship with a person who had previously been dating another individual within the peer group, [8] analogous to the way female virginity has historically been correlated with purity.

In November 2022, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas was criticised after using the term in a press conference. He apologised, and said he was not aware that it was a sexual term. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Dalzell, Tom; Victor, Terry, eds. (2013). The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2nd ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-61949-3.
  2. ↑ Paul Baker (25 May 2004). Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 194. ISBN   978-0-8264-7343-1.
  3. ↑ Doyle, Charles (2012). The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 234. ISBN   978-0300136029.
  4. ↑ Congressional Record. July 23, 1998. p. 16928. Original source: "Where'd you learn that?", article in Time magazine, Monday, June 15, 1998.
  5. ↑ Comfort, Alex (1987). The Joy of Sex: a Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking. New York: Pocket Books. p. 160. ISBN   0671735187.
  6. ↑ Grose, Francis; Partridge, Eric (2004). A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Washington, D.C., United States: Beard Books. p. 63. ISBN   1587982471.
  7. ↑ Steen, Edwin Benzel; Price, James H. (1988). Human sex and sexuality (2nd rev. and enl. ed.). New York: Dover Publications. p. 362. ISBN   978-0-486-25544-6.
  8. ↑ Luisa Dillner, Love by Numbers: The Hidden Facts Behind Everyone's Relationships (2009), p. 47.
  9. ↑ SA Premier Peter Malinauskas criticised over 'sloppy seconds' remark about AFL round win, ABC News, 15 November, 2022
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