Soaking is a sexual practice of inserting the penis into the vagina but not subsequently thrusting or ejaculating , reportedly used by some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LDS Church. Postings on TikTok and other social media sites have stated that soaking serves as a purported loophole to the LDS Church's sexual code of conduct, called the law of chastity , which says that all sexual activity outside of a heterosexual marriage is a sin , [ 2 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and further bars masturbation for church members.
The term soaking comes from the idea that vaginal lubrication is "soaking" the penis. In , a video about soaking went viral on TikTok , [ 33 ] and since then the topic has an estimated 69 million posts and million mention on the platform as of Practices described in the following sources as related to soaking include jump humping , provo pushing , and durfing :. In , one of the LDS Church's top leaders , year-old apostle Albert Carrington , argued during the hearings before his excommunication that his decade of extramarital sexual relationships with multiple younger women did not count as adultery a violation of the church's law of chastity and was just a "little folly" because he would only partially penetrate the vagina with just the tip of his penis and part of the shaft reportedly to less than the total "depth of four inches" , and pulled out before ejaculation.
Smith called Carrington's actions a "transgression" and other top leaders called them "crimes of lewd and lascivious conduct and adultery", and Carrington was excommunicated. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Mormon premarital sex avoidance method.
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