Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? When it comes to the wonderful world of butt stuff, a few popular pleasure practices have been hogging the spotlight. Looking at you, rim jobs. Pegging, put simply, is penetrative anal intercourse. Specifically, anal intercourse wherein one person dons a strap-on harness and anally penetrates another, says Holly Richmond, PhD , a sex therapist, somatic psychotherapist, and associate director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes.
As a refresher, a strap-on harness is a sex toy that is designed to secure a dildo to the pelvis so that it extends from the body, much like a factory-installed penis would. Ahead, sex educators explain exactly what pegging isβand how to try it in a way that is as pleasurable for all parties as possible.
Pegging, at its most distilled, is just anal sex. Or more specifically, penetrative anal play that involves one person wearing and another person receiving a dildo , says Rachel Wright, LMFT, a New York-based licensed psychotherapist and host of The Wright Conversations podcast.
The term was coined in by sex educator Dan Savage , who asked his readers to vote on a name for the sex act involving a woman implied: cisgender woman anally penetrating her partner implied: cisgender man with a strap-on harness. The winner, as you can tell, was the term pegging. These days, the term is used whenever couples of any genders, sexual orientations, or genital make-ups have anal sex with a strap-on, she says.
The term can apply to a queer woman who uses a dildo to have anal sex with her partner; a penis-owner can also peg their partner of any gender, too. Yep, there are strap-on harnesses for people with penises, too! The point of pegging? The result? An eruption of a different kind of orgasm that can be seriously intense, according to explains Kimberly McBride, PhD, associate professor of public health at the University of Toledo.
