PEGGING

Pegging is a sexual practice in which a woman penetrates a man's anus with a strap-on dildo. The neologism "pegging" was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in Dan Savage's Savage Love sex advice column, held after an observation was made that there was no common name for the act.

Examples

The 1970 film Myra Breckinridge (film) infamously features Raquel Welch pegging an unwilling man.

In the 2011 movie On ne choisit pas sa famille, César Borgnoli, alias Christian Clavier, is pegged by Kim alias Muriel Robin.

The 2008 film Zack and Miri Make a Porno features pegging between characters played by Traci Lords and Ricky Mabe.

There is a depiction of pegging in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. The dildo used in the scene is called a Steely Dan III, and is the source from which the musical group Steely Dan takes its name.

The 2007 film YPF features a storyline in which a couple who feel their lovemaking has become boring over time, attempt to spice up their sex by trying pegging.

Pegging was featured in the 2005 series of the UK comedy Peep Show (2005).

It was featured in the television show Weeds, during the episode "Crush Girl Love Panic" (2006).

It was featured in the premier episode of Shameless.

In the pilot episode of Dirt (2007), Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox) blackmails Prince Tyreese (Rick Fox) with photographs of him being pegged by a prostitute.

The theatre company Pack of Others have an entire theatrical performance devoted to "spreading the word about the pleasures of prostate stimulation and strap-on sex.^"

The show has toured nationally and won Best Comedy at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival

Dan Savage was the guest on The Colbert Report on November 29, 2010.

During the interview Savage educated host Stephen Colbert on the practice of pegging.

In the 1973 dystopian novel Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger, the practice is a form of "anal therapy" for men.