The new flatness of fap puts the rites of Onan (the Biblical character who gets killed off by God for spilling his seed) in the same linguistic category of our other onomatopoeic bodily functions- fart, burp, sniffle, creak, yawn, cough, fap. To jerk off is to be a tight-fisted vigilante, wresting pleasure from our parts by dark of night - to fap is to simply produce a small noise, skin to skin, the sound of one hand, well…you get the idea. Gone are the implications of violence, the sense of danger or pain wrapped up with self-pleasure. Where once, a man in a confessional mode might talk about jerking off, jacking off, beating off, whacking off, choking the chicken, rubbing one out, wanking, or just plain masturbating, today a man simply faps.īut why “fap”? Fap is a duller word than those that came before it. Over the course of the last 15 years, a linguistic shift profound to the lives of men (and, occasionally, women) has taken place. But in all this reporting on anti-masturbation cereal and no-fap dudes *checks notes* using their own moms as anti-masturbation support, maybe we’re missing a more important question: Where did the word ‘fap’ actually come from? We’ve even noted the lonely hearts in quarantine turning their masturbation into data viz, and the fact that “Blister in the Sun” isn’t actually about fapping at all. We’ve written a lot about fapping here at MEL, from the lies you’ve been told about it to the number of calories you burn doing it.
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