Glory Hole Fun
If we are to believe the Roman poet Ovid, the first glory hole was the one used by the illicit lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. Ovid wrote down their story more than two thousand years ago, but he was popularizing folklore that was ancient then. In Ovid’s discreet retelling, those two lusty young people merely used the hole between their houses to whisper through and make illicit assignations. But modern authors have elaborated this into an explicit dick-in-a-hole erotic tale. Human nature being what it is, my money bets that P&T wasted no time at all figuring out the best use of a convenient hole.
Per the pallid phrasings of Wikipedia on the subject of glory holes, we learn of the first appearance of a glory hole in actual historical documents. These tell us all about the legal tribulations of the unfortunate Mr. Guillam, who in 1707 was minding his own eliminatory business when “a boy in the adjoyning vault put his privy-member through a hole” and offered it for a lewd proposition. Mr. Guillam fled in surprise, but the whole sordid exchange was witnessed by a blackguard who accosted Mr. Guillam and attempted, apparently without success, to blackmail him over it. As we learn over and over, there’s nothing sexual that was invented recently!
Although glory holes gained a lot of notoriety in the 20th century as a venue for gay cruising and casual sex, the fantasy potential of the Pyramus-and-Thisbe situation has never been lost on pornographers. Having all kinds of anonymous sex through a hole is a notion that appeals to plenty of men and women both.
Outside the gay pornosphere, surprisingly, we don’t see as much modern glory-hole porn as you might think. Even a hard-working review site that does in-depth pornsite reviews like this AdultTime review in all kinds of porn niches, doesn’t list very many sites in their gloryhole porn sites section. Into this underserved market, fortunately, the vast army of hentai artists have thrust themselves with vigor and panache! As indeed the artwork in this post demonstrates conclusively.
I imagine the appeal of the gloryhole lies in its anonymity and no-strings-attached simplicity. A dick protruding from a hole has only one demand, and that demand is simple. A willing mouth on the other side of the hole will be too busy to ask you for anything that might complexify the exchange. No fuss, a minimum of muss, and everybody goes away happy!
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Of course, glory holes are heterosexuals in porn. But I think in a ladies-poor environment, I think their main use may be to hide the nature of the mouth doing the sucking. When you’re in a sex club with 5 to 10 men per woman, or in a men’s toilets (!), the gloryhole allows the illusion of thinking it’s a woman on the side, and not a gay or bi man. Which is important for some people.
Whaaa…?
This wordy posting and no mention of its horizontal cousin, the “tug job table”?
Dr. Whiplash, your worldliness exceeds my own; that’s actually a new-to-me phrase.
M. Chapeau, as unlikey as that seems in contexts like men’s toilets, I do not think you are wrong. The ability of many people to hang arousal-sustaining self-delusions on the merest fig leaf of deniability is, rightly, legendary.
Also, Whiplash, I took an internal poll about getting offended by “wordy” and all I could summon up was a “Nah, the contestant is correct…”
I have not ever been into the glory hole thing and whenever I think of them I remember being at a swingers club and we had decided to use one of the private cabins for some alone time. What we had not realised is that there was a pathway round the back and a glory hole positioned just over the bed. On looking up whilst my partner was going down on me I was greeted with a surprise penis, that was flaccid, and the situation just seemed hilarious to me and so my partner was looking up at me through my legs wondering why I was in fits of laughter and the penis…. that was swiftly removed on hearing my giggles. I hope he wasn’t too offended by my laughter
Molly
Molly, that made me laugh too. A comedy of minor errors and thwarted expectations.
I say old bean, I never intended my use of “wordy” to be in any way critical of the length of your posting. I just had observed that though it was quite a bit longer that many of your typical postings, there was no space devoted toward the mention of the horizontal variety (which believe me, is in a class by itself!).
Rub & Tug parlors, (Jack Shacks), often have a massage table with not only a hole for facial comfort when laying on one’s belly, but a second hole for the comfort of one’s member. This hole is a great conversation starter when trying to ask for a happy ending to one’s massage.
These are often called “milking tables” as well (alternately online porn may refer to them as “mylking tables” to differentiate them from less porny hits on a web search.
The term “milking” is from the way a man’s package hangs down from underneath, resembling a cow’s utter, and ostensibly because (especially if strapped down), is often “milked” dry.
It is usually a two-person procedure, where sometimes a special prostate stimulation tool is employed, other times the standing masseuse just continues to give a a back and buttock massage, while the partially reclining sex worker below the table is employing a hand job or blow job, or sometimes a combination of both.
Anonymity (like that of its cousin the “glory hole” experience), can be achieved via blindfolding the client before the additional person enters the room.
Sometimes the topside masseuse also employs a full-body massage, using her bare and oiled breasts.
There’s nothing like the feel of ample breasts with hard nipples being dragged across one’s bare buttocks.
I believe I have heard yet other terms used as well to describe these awesome tables, but they’re not coming to me at the moment.
Okay, a quick search turns up glory table, glory hole table, glory hole massage table, glory hole milking table, milking table glory hole, cock milking table, male glory hole table, glory hole milking board, milking massage table, and from a huge online retailer, the happy ending table.
I never doubted you! I am a little bit in awe that here in my 19th year of sex blogging I never really zeroed in on that as a practice or a fetish at any time; I’ve seen the furniture in random porns now that you mention it, but somehow it never really caught my attention. Talk about an oversight!
That’s why you are still doing this after 19 years. Once you have dicovered every bit of kink,every sexy story and every erotic image, then you can hang up your pornoscope and take it easy.
Yeah, LOL, somehow I don’t think I’ll ever quite get to the end of the sex-internet.