People Don’t Know What A Piss Boy Is?
One thing that happens when you spend a couple of decades writing a sex-positive publication with a firm commitment not to kink-shame anybody, is that while you might bite your tongue from time to time and you might choose not to write about this or that sexual practice because you don’t have a good handle on your own squickery, for the most part you become a lot more blasé than the general population about what your most vanilla auntie would consider “freaky” stuff. If you aren’t careful, you’re at constant risk of frightening the horses and/or freaking the mundanes, because what’s normal conversation to you is highly upsetting to them. (Please don’t ask me about the time I got roped into playing Cards Against Humanity with my elder relatives using somebody else’s raunchy expanded deck.)
Apparently there’s a similar phenomenon that applies when you’re an indy musician like Jessilyn and you’re playing your antifascist song Piss Boy Government at a punk bar. Here’s a video (backup link) where she talks about it, but I grabbed the transcript for all y’all who like me have short attention spans. Executive summary: it never occurred to her that people in her audience at a punk bar wouldn’t know what a piss boy was.
I had the opportunity to play some of my antifascist music out at a punk bar on Wednesday and I was really excited I got to play my song Piss Boy Government.
I preface that song with being like “Just for the record I’ve got nothing against piss boys. We love a good piss boy, they just need to learn their place.”
The basis of the song is that like the United States government is full of piss boys who don’t know their place and they don’t seem to realise that the American people are their mistress. I didn’t realize this while I was performing but I had someone else record a video for me, and when I was watching this video back just a couple minutes ago I realized that there were these two men talking during my set.
They’re just like “what’s a piss boy” and the other one’s like “I don’t know, let’s Urban Dictionary it” so they go on to Urban Dictionary and they type in “piss boy” and they come back and they’re just like “okay, so it says it’s a submissive male who for lack of a better term engages in ‘water sports’ if you know what I’m saying” and they’re like “oh what?”
So in addition to getting to play my antifascist music I also got to educate two grown men on what a piss boy is and I just… I didn’t realize that there were people who didn’t know what a piss boy was. I truly didn’t know that! I thought everybody in that crowd would be like, “yeah, piss boys! I know what that is. I know what you’re talking about. Donald Trump is for sure a piss boy, he loves the golden showers. Elon Musk for sure a piss boy. He’s a diaper boy, diaper baby.” You know? I thought everybody would be… I thought this was like a common thing everybody knew, but apparently not!
Image credit: Pissboy artwork is by legendary Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa.
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It’s not just a matter of kinks, but if you’re involved enough in them to know the terminology.
The picture–not my thing, but it’s not going to ick me. But this is the first time I ever heard of a term for it.
Click on the picture. The full photo is awesome. The girl’s expression, the cigarette. Her nonchalance compared to his enthusiasm.
Namio Harukawa is famous for a reason!