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 pillow biter possible origin




From: derek@iconz.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Pillow Biter? (was Re: Kim has horns?)
Date: 7 Oct 1994 18:09:33 +1200

In article <370ntc$fuf@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote: >I wrote:
>>>As for the Ashkenaz, my last love had those deep brown-black eyes, and I
>>>still wake up biting the pillow sometimes.
>
>meaning only to convey the anguish of sexual privation, but I should
>know better than to walk out of the house without a flak jacket...
>
>Lindsay wrote:
>
>>Hmmm. In this neck of the woods, I wouldn't claim fame to being a pillow
>>biter... So who was he Clay?
>
>You're the second person to allude to this as a turn of phrase. (Come
>to think of it, the other person was a weird Kiwi git as well.)

Must have been Steve.

>What
>does it mean? I'll hazard a guess that it is the same as a Bottom here
>in NYC.

A long time ago, in the UK, there was a case of a famous male politician (who's name escapes me) and a chap called Norman Scott. The said politician picked Norman up in a bar or something and invited him home for some rumpy pumpy fun.

Norman apparently had second thoughts about this type of behaviour halfway through the act but felt he had to go through with it anyway. Possibly the thought of how much money he'd make selling the story to the tabloids affected this decision.

Anyway during the court case, when describing the act of anal sex with said politician and his horror at being engaged in this type of behaviour, Norman uttered the immortal words "I just bit the pillow"

Which was, of course, the headline of several tabloid newspapers the next day. It was a quote that could be used on the early evening news without worrying about saying things like 'anal' or 'sex'.

This may also have been one of the origins of the phrase 'pillow biter' with regard to this kind of behaviour. It is certainly the first occurence I have heard of.

Of course there were all the obvious jokes with punchlines like "Beam me up Scotty", etc.

Derek "I just drool on my pillows" Tearne


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