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American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner
The sexual practice now called “pegging” long predates the modern word: archaeological and literary evidence, plus historical strap-on use, trace similar acts back millennia (e.g., Upper Paleolithic s...
Pegging — commonly defined as anal penetration with a strap‑on — is practiced across genders and orientations and is framed both as physical pleasure (often via prostate stimulation) and as a way to s...
Pegging refers to an act of anal penetration in which a person uses a strap‑on dildo to penetrate another person’s anus; in common usage it most often denotes a woman penetrating a man with a strap‑on...
Pegging, as commonly discussed in contemporary sex writing, refers to anal penetration with a strap‑on dildo—historically a woman penetrating a man but now described in gender‑neutral terms—and has ga...
Pegging — defined as a woman penetrating a man's anus with a strap-on — has moved from obscurity into mainstream conversation and can, for some participants, function as a form of feminist empowerment...
Pegging is commonly defined as a person using a strap‑on to anally penetrate another person, originally coined to describe a cis woman penetrating a cis man, but now used more broadly across genders a...
Pegging generally refers to anal penetration using a strap-on dildo and was popularized as a term by Dan Savage in 2001; definitions and who counts as a “pegger” have broadened to include people of al...
Pegging most commonly refers to a sexual practice in which a person—traditionally a woman—uses a strap‑on dildo to penetrate a partner anally; the term was popularized by Dan Savage and the definition...
Pegging became widely discussed after Dan Savage coined the term in 2001, and its visibility — search spikes, porn-data signals and mainstream media references — accelerated in the 2010s and early 202...
Pegging became called “revolutionary” because it visibly reverses traditional sexual gender roles, opens conversations about male vulnerability and pleasure (including prostate stimulation), and rode ...
"Pegged" is a versatile English word whose meanings range from the literal past tense of "peg" to idiomatic uses meaning "estimated or assigned," "fixed or tied (especially currencies)," "judged or un...
The sexual slang sense of "pegging" — a person (commonly a woman) using a strap‑on dildo to anally penetrate a man — entered popular English in 2001 after a naming contest run by sex columnist Dan Sav...
The practice now called “pegging” — penetration with a strap-on — has a modern name but a deep and messy prehistory: archaeologists and popular historians point to artifacts and images that some inter...
Pegging is commonly defined as penetrative anal sex performed with a strap-on dildo—historically described as a cisgender woman penetrating a cisgender man—but the term and practice have broadened to ...
Pegging is a sexual practice in which one partner penetrates another partner’s anus with a strap-on dildo, most classically described as a woman anally penetrating a cis man with a harnessed toy . The...
Attitudes toward pegging have shifted from scattered, largely hidden historical practice to a contested modern spotlight where visibility, medical discussion, and politics intersect; ancient artifacts...
LGBTQ+ communities and sexual liberation movements played a central role in making pegging legible, debated and gradually less stigmatized by challenging gendered sexual scripts and widening sexual vo...
Pegging—commonly defined as a person (usually a cis woman) using a strap‑on to anally penetrate a partner (usually a cis man)—rose from niche to visible in the 21st century after Dan Savage’s 2001 coi...
Pegging — typically defined as a person wearing a strap‑on dildo to anally penetrate their partner — is increasingly visible in mainstream sex writing and advice as a mutually pleasurable practice tha...