This 2007 post & the term "asshole buddies" had completely slipped my AND Wax's memories

[cimorene]

cimorene posted: WE'RE ASSHOLE BUDDIES.

cim: So. 3.7 and 4.5 were... there was an American phrase he'd heard once, 'asshole buddies.' They hid it well; neither of them seemed at all--well, gay, or effeminate, or whatever.
perhael: OMGGHGGGGGGGDBGFNKGMKNKJFFHSHDF
cim: ASSHOLE BUDDIES?

cim: it's american? i feel so culturally impoverished!
wax: *goes to the urban dictionary*

1.        Asshole buddies
       
During WW2, sex was hard to get, and masturbation and fellatio were totally unacceptable practices. But in a foxhole environment asshole buddies could sodomize each other, in turn, without problem, as long as it was kept on the down low.

I get along pretty good with Pvt X. We're asshole buddies.

I'll bet those guys are asshole buddies.

Comments

[brewsternorth]

...Dang. This is the sort of lore that "Band of Brothers" fandom would have given thousands of words of slash for.

[stultiloquentia]

I...how the heck was masturbation more taboo than sodomy? People are so weird.

[cimorene]

People suggested because you have to see the dick and engage with it to touch it with your hand but I still find that dubious. Even if you can look the other way while being anally sodomized it's not like you don't... feel it? And surely you don't pretend it's a girl with a strap-on???? In the 40s? idk. I can see people thinking it may be kinda gay but it doesn't count because it was just bargaining for their own turn on top, sure, people love to rationalize... but what I can't see is how they portray it to themselves as less gay than giving a handjob.

[used_songs]

That was the question I came here to ask.