69 being the old funny number in anglophone culture is pretty weird, considering that US men are much less likely to perform cunnilingus than European men (according to surveys, which are usually biased in some ways).
And I never really got the impression that it’s only men who would perform cunnilingus who make 69 jokes.
I don’t see why a sex joke would only be funny if it’s about an act you would personally do. If anything, it seems to me that people would be more likely to joke about a sex act that seems weird to them.
The thing is, with most sex acts that seem weird to the joker, you can usually tell that they don’t think positively about it. But I’ve never seen a 69 reference like that, people are always doing those as if they thought that doing 69 was unironically great.
Most of the 69 jokes I’ve heard are from teenage boys (or the teenage at heart) who barely know what 69 refers to, it’s just the “sex number”. If pressed they could probably tell you what it means specifically but I think most of the time it’s just “funny because sex” not any statement on the act itself.
Sort of. My reading is that they’re claiming the joke probably already existed, but it was made popular by a 1989 American film. But the key is that it existed before that. Presumably it was in America by 1988, but that says nothing of where it originated.
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69 being the old funny number in anglophone culture is pretty weird, considering that US men are much less likely to perform cunnilingus than European men (according to surveys, which are usually biased in some ways).
And I never really got the impression that it’s only men who would perform cunnilingus who make 69 jokes.
I don’t see why a sex joke would only be funny if it’s about an act you would personally do. If anything, it seems to me that people would be more likely to joke about a sex act that seems weird to them.
The thing is, with most sex acts that seem weird to the joker, you can usually tell that they don’t think positively about it. But I’ve never seen a 69 reference like that, people are always doing those as if they thought that doing 69 was unironically great.
Most of the 69 jokes I’ve heard are from teenage boys (or the teenage at heart) who barely know what 69 refers to, it’s just the “sex number”. If pressed they could probably tell you what it means specifically but I think most of the time it’s just “funny because sex” not any statement on the act itself.
wait, American men don’t eat pussy?
Ce n’est pas seulement dans la culture anglophone. Selon Explain XKCD, il à commencé en français.
Laut Explain XKCD haben die Franzosen den Akt benannt, aber der 69-Witz kommt aus den USA.
A czemu wy nie mówicie po angielsku? :D
Frag den Franzosen, er hat angefangen Ü
Sort of. My reading is that they’re claiming the joke probably already existed, but it was made popular by a 1989 American film. But the key is that it existed before that. Presumably it was in America by 1988, but that says nothing of where it originated.