Snowballing

Passing cum from mouth to mouth with a kiss after a blowjob, back to the man who shot it or on to another guy.

Snowballing is passing cum from mouth to mouth with a kiss. One man sucks another off, takes the load in his mouth without swallowing, and shares it back, either with the man who shot it or with a third guy. A snowball is the shared load; a snowballer is someone who likes doing it.

It is intimate in a way that surprises people who only know the word as a dare. For the men who are into it, the kiss is the point: it turns the end of a blowjob into something mutual instead of a full stop.

Where it comes from

Green's Dictionary of Slang calls the origin of snowball uncertain, but suggests the sexual sense is underpinned by the cocktail of the same name, a creamy drink once made with crème de menthe and now with advocaat. The image of something white rolled from one person to another does the rest.

The earliest record is gay. A 1972 article in the journal Anthropological Linguistics listed snowball queen, "one who enjoys taking semen into the mouth," and Paul Baker includes the same expression in Fantabulosa, his dictionary of Polari and gay slang. The bare word snowball in this sense is in print in the Gay Almanac of 1996.

How it is used today

On the apps, snowballing is a niche tag that tends to appear with other cum kinks: breeding, felching, cum play in general. It is popular in pig profiles, but couples who would never call themselves pigs often try it out of curiosity. In porn it is a recognized finish and a favorite of scenes with three or more guys, where a load can make the rounds.

Close relatives

• Swallowing: the load stays in one mouth, no sharing.
• Felching: the cum comes out of an ass first, then is often shared with a kiss, so it ends in a snowball of sorts.
• Facial: the load goes on the face instead of in the mouth.

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