Anal penetration (heterosexual male, receptive)

This website presents entertainment material that’s perfect for promoting conversations leading to “teachable moments” about the kinds of sexual topics you might want to raise with the young people in your life. It has generally avoided discussions of specific sex acts. But we should make an exception for pegging (or “heterosexual male receptive dildonic intromission” as social scientists might call it, if they talked about such filth) because it raises a series of interesting questions about what straight people do in bed, the power relations involved, and whether men should ask to put their penis in a woman’s bottom if they’re not willing to have a go themselves.

What do we think? Could all straight men benefit from sticking their ass in the air and having it penetrated? Would it open their minds, so to say? Or is it only a niche of hetero blokes – a “subset” if you will (sub? Get it?) – who would benefit from such an experience? You could go straight to Bend Over Boyfriend – but that might be a bit confronting for some conversational partners. Luckily Broad City is here to help. Watch Abbi and Ilana discuss the issues raised by pegging, and then use the Study Guide to have your own conversations about the politics, pleasures and practicalities of straight men taking it up the bum.

Warning: this video includes sexual miscommunication, a hairy chest, a strap-on dildo and friends who talk openly about anal sex.

Study Guide

1. Have you heard of pegging before? From your parents, sex ed in school, or somewhere else?

2. How could Jeremy and Abbi have improved their communication in this conversation?

3. Some educators argue that heterosexual pegging is a powerful feminist practice. In what ways are they right?