Soupeur

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Soupeur is a sexual practice involving attraction to other male secretions, specifically bread soaked in urine, or semen. [1]

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Bread soaked in urine

This specific meaning refers to individuals who take pleasure in consuming food soaked in the urine of others, [2] in particular bread abandoned and later retrieved at public urinals. [3] This practice was popular in Paris and Marseille up until the 1960s and 1970s. There were numerous contemporary references in popular culture.[ citation needed ]

There existed an alternative where a public urinal is stopped in order to wait for it to fill. Then a person would enter it and submerge his penis into the urine of previous users. This was alternatively called dipping.

Semen in brothels

The term alternatively describes the act of individuals visiting brothels to consume the semen left on the prostitutes by the customers. This act is also named "do dinette."

In her autobiography One two two, [4] former prostitute Fabienne Jamet evokes this practice: "Back when I ruled the 122, I had a soupeur who could take thirty to forty loads at a time."

Sometimes prostitutes "fake" their performance by brushing their pubic hair with ersatz sperm made from a mixture of egg white, urine and a few drops of bleach. [5]

These practices both extreme and often adorned innocuous descriptions slums of Paris in the literature of the mid-twentieth century:

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References

  1. "SOUPEUR : Définition de SOUPEUR". www.cnrtl.fr. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  2. Les Vespasiennes étaient connues pendant la première moitié du xxe siècle pour être des lieux de rencontre de marginaux et de pervers, raison pour laquelle elles furent presque toutes démolies, notamment à Paris. Voir à ce sujet l'ouvrage de Laud Humphreys, Le Commerce des pissotières : Pratiques anonymes dans l'Amérique des années 1960, La Découverte, 2005.
  3. "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2016-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. le One-two-two, établi au 122, rue de Provence, fut une des plus célèbres maisons closes de Paris.
  5. Cf. Martin Monestier, Les Poils, histoires et bizarreries, p. 260.

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