Content warning : the following sections include further references to sexual content, which is involved in the history and use of the slang term. Tea-bagging takes its name from actual tea bags , little permeable sacks of tea leaves steeped in hot water for a cup of tea. The sexual slang tea-bagging was first recorded in the s. The tea-bagging gag has also spread to video-game culture, where players tea-bag a fallen character by repeatedly kneeling and standing over their head, shoving their cyber-junk into the fallen cyber-faces.

Why are we talking about teabagging today, just a few days before Christmas? Well, dear friends. Why are people so offended?

Teabagging is a slang term for the sexual act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth of a willing sexual partner for pleasure or onto the face or head of another person. The name of the practice, when it is done in a repeated in-and-out motion, is derived from its passing resemblance to the dipping of a tea bag into a cup of hot water as a method of brewing tea. As a form of non-penetrative sex, it can be done for its own enjoyment or as foreplay.