The excellent columnist Dan Savage started a campaign
...to define the word Santorum - until then just the name of a hate-mongering homophobic fuckwit politician - as something a) for which there was no current word, and b) would hack Mr Santorum off royally.

There was a competition, and the winning definition was chosen. And it has completely moved into the language now. Go Dan!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:11, 3 replies)

If I'd done a little more research I would have found this out, but I couldn't be arsed.
Thanks for making something that seemed a remarkable and humurous coincidence (although I wasn't too sure the two weren't linked) even better.
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:32, closed)

Less than three for Dan
I still get the giggles every time I hear any of the words he's made up. There's only two listed on his wiki page, but I'm certain there's more than that. I could have sworn he coined the word "rimming" as well.
(ladydyani, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 18:02, closed)

Ok, I was wrong
It wasn't rimming, it was pegging he coined the term for. They've got it listed on the wiki page for Savage Love

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Love
(ladydyani, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 18:09, closed)

Thank you for saving me the effort.
I had to go run some errands today, otherwise I would have provided the explanation that you did. I consider Dan Savage to be one of the most insightful columnists I've ever read. His advice on relationships, aside from the sexual components, has always been spot-on in my estimation. (His sexual recommendations also sound about right to me, but I'm not enough of an expert to comment intelligently on that.) The link that ladydyani provides is a good one. Unfortunately it doesn't say much about his "It Gets Better" campaign, which is something that I found to be very admirable.

Anyway, yes, that's where "santorum" comes from.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 8 Jul 2011, 20:19, closed)