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rim job
What does rim job mean?
A rim job is sexual slang for performing oral sex on someone’s anus.
Where does rim job come from?
Before the late 1960s, a rim job was almost exclusively the domain of automotive mechanics: the work of putting new rims onto a car’s wheels. With the rise of the adult film industry in the late 1960–70s, rim job entered the public discourse as an informal term for anilingus.
That more technical word for rim job, anilingus, is recorded in an 1899 translation of Psychopathia Sexualis, a German encyclopedia of sexual terms. Rim job is evidenced by 1970, based on job for “sex act” (e.g., blowjob for oral stimulation of the penis). The rim apparently refers to the shape of the anus—a kind of ring of muscle that acts as the “rim” around the hole.
Examples of rim job
Who uses rim job?
Rim job isn’t for polite conversation, as it is an intimate sex act.
Dreamt I was in a mall with my grandma and she asked me what a rim job was, woke up laughing hysterically
— boobs for beards (@hotsexinabox) July 23, 2018
That said, rim jobs is often the source of unintentional (or intentional) humor, especially when making puns on automative rims. Actually, all types of rims are fair game for cheap rim shots.
day 189 without sex: went to the tire place so that I could remember what a rim job was like
— al (@allie_lawson) July 23, 2018
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