(about sexual acts, especially between men, and also about excrement as an accompaniment to sexual acts, all described in vulgar street language, so this posting is massively unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest)
Two messy situations. Anal intercourse sometimes involves the mess of excrement — feces, inadverent (oops!) or intentional (yes!) — and American gay usage has supplied vocabulary for both situations (now extended to women, as well as men, as receptive partners in anal intercourse).
This is as far as I will go using distanced, technical language; from now on, I’ll use the current street language — heavy in F-bombs and S-bombs, among other things — of my sources. This isn’t just a stylistic decision; again and again, it turns out that the distanced language is imprecise and fuzzy, while the street language comes with specific and detailed reference — just as you would expect, because the distanced language is designed to avoid embarrassing reality, while the street language needs to be clear on details that affect how we conduct our everyday lives.
Inadvertent and intentional. Having said that, I now tell you that my two main topics are
— painting: painting a guy’s dick — or, metonymically, the guy — (with shit) when getting fucked by him; getting painted (by a guy’s shit — or, metonymically, the guy) when getting fucked by him
— and shit-fucking / shitfucking: shit-fucking (or fucking the shit out of) someone’s ass — or, metonymically, someone; getting shit-fucked (or getting the shit fucked out of you) by a guy’s dick — or, metonymically, by the guy [shit-fucking / getting shit-fucked is intentional mess, a sexual fetish, intended to be pleasurable for both participants; there are people who are into it, there’s shit-fucking porn, and so on]
Yes, fuck the shit out of can also be just a hyperbolic variant of fuck: ‘fuck deeply or vigorously’.
And coprophagy — shit-eating — is a separate topic; see my 2/17/19 posting “Eat it! The oral humiliation you deserve”, with remarks on shit-eating as a sexual fetish.
Painting. Painting / getting painted is inadvertent mess; it comes up in postings of advice to bottoms about douching before getting fucked, to avoid painting your top.
The topic makes it into GDoS, in this entry on the verb paint, with a report from a 1988 vocabulary list:
3 (US gay) to have a bowel movement during anal intercourse 1988 H. Max gay (s)language: a dic(k)tionary of gay slang (Banned Books, Austin TX)
This is, more or less, a description of shit-fucking, not of painting. It is, in any event, a terrible piece of lexicography, evoking something of the situation (the combination of shit and fucking) without giving accurate and useful clues as to how the lexical item is used in sentences.
Now some comments on reddit, about to paint a man’s dick or a man and [of a man’s dick or of a man] to get painted (by a man’s shit or by a man or by shit). I’ve selected these comments from a much larger corpus, but I haven’t edited them, both to let the attitudes stand as they are and also to show the writers’ vernacular lexical and syntactic choices and their ways of coping with spelling and textual organization (matters that I could easily spend a day writing about).
entry 1, on reddit in 2022
I hate myself…I just fully painted a guys dick
I prepped so thoroughly too 😵💫 I fucking hate me sometimes man
I met up with this really hot dude (at his place) and made sure to prep before I left just in case. One thing led to another and we ended up having bareback penetrative sex (both on prep)- and we both came. After the high went down I noticed that his dick was pretty much smeared with SHIT😫. I literally panicked and ran to the bathroom and had a bit of a cry.
The guy was so supportive and sweet about it but…idk man, how do I rid myself of this disgusting feeling I have. Like I’m just utterly disgusted with myself and I hate that this had to happen.
Bottoms, how do y’all cope when this happens?
comments on entry 1
It’s an ass, shit happens. Any decent person will understand there is a risk involved with fucking ass.
Can I speak as someone who just had this happen and was the top. It really isn’t a big deal. We all know what we’re getting into when we play in the region. None of us want it to happen, but it happened and it’s totally okay. You did nothing wrong And it’s totally not embarrassing.
I’m a top, and I’m fully aware that fucking an ass has the potential to be messy. The silver lining here is that usually neither party notices until the pleasure has been had anyways. In general, sex can be messy, it just comes with the territory. Way back in the day when I bottomed, I learned that you don’t want to do more than 2 flushes with the douche. For some reason, more than 2 flushes seems to kick up more of a mess and make it worse.
I have been a bottom since age 14. It wasn’t until i was 22 did I learn about douching. It wasn’t until I was 28 did a top tell me this bit of information. “We (Tops) know where we’re putting our dicks. Our dicks are pumping inside your ass. In and out, in and out, and that is going to move shit forward. So that you know shit happens”. I do properly douche and I do clean out, but it can’t always be avoid. I Top also, so I am always forgiving and I never shame a bottom. So my advice, continue to clean out, and if the top is offended, he is being disrespectful then never fuck him again.
First, forgive yourself. It’s a part of sex that everyone is going to have to deal with at some point. It’s a butt. Butts shit. He acted appropriately. You should take a page from him, laugh it off as an experience I guarantee you’ll laugh about someday. And be thankful. I dated a guy for a while. Our last time was the only time knocks on wood I got “painted”. He broke up with me the next day. 😂 I wanted us to have a do-over just once so we didn’t leave it like that. He was mortified. It wasn’t the reason we broke up but I definitely think it affected his timing. So, it could always be worse. ✌️
I shit on my tops dick. We cleaned up and carried on. It happens.
entry 2, on reddit in 2025
I’ve seen quite a bit of people on here. Either post that they have painted someone or that they’re scared of painting someone. …
comments on entry 2
My ex and I were teenagers and inexperienced. He used to paint me all the time, I wore a condom, so it never was an issue for me.
Not a top but would love to share the reaction I received. I got told “that’s discusting” 🙂↔️ and yk what I’ve acc been messier it was the tinyest blob. Does he forget I use it to shit not just to pleasure men 😔
personal note on painting. Back in the day, in n earlier century, I got fucked a lot; it was immensely satisfying for me, and I was good at selecting tops who understood that they were there to serve my pleasure as much as I was there to serve theirs.
As far as I know, I painted a guy only once, a nice guy who fucked me sweetly at the baths in San Jose and then found his dick coated in my shit, to his deep disgust (so he bounded off to the showers to clean himself off, and I didn’t get that sweet post-sex time in each other’s arms, talking about our lives). I had in fact douched before we conjugated, but that apparently just dislodged some shit from further up my ass.
I often douched before going to the baths, but also often just washed my ass thoroughly with soap and water, which is what I did at home with Jacques. His fucking me was a kind of special sexual treat, sort of like Sunday dinner, but we fucked when the mood overtook us, not on any kind of schedule, so we both just kept ourselves clean as a matter of course — especially our dicks, since we did a ton of cocksucking.
I’m pretty sure I never painted his dick, because when the sweet post-conjugal moment was over, we’d go to the bathroom together and lovingly wash each other: I would carefully wash his dick (carefully because he was uncut, and very sensitive), and he would more briskly clean my asshole and its surroundings. So I would have noticed shit on his dick and he would have noticed shit on my perineum.
We had a big pile of washcloths for these little ceremonies — I still have them — and each of us used one on the other, just once, and then they went into the laundry basket. Neither of us was creeped out by shit, but we were clean young men. Ass-fucking faggots — oh yes, occasionally I fucked him — but clean.
Shit-fucking. Here there’s an assortment of uses for the expressions shit-fuck and shit-fucking. For instance, the double-barreled expletive shit fuck! — cousin to my personal ultimate end-of-tether expletive Jesus fuck!
Then there’s the verb and noun shit-fuck referring to an act that is a combination of (ass-)fucking (on the part of the insertive participant, a man) and shitting (on the part of the receptive participant, a man or a woman. As in this Urban Dictionary shit-fuck entry by MasterF4U, from 12/28/10:
Fucking an ass deeply enough to encounter the shit coming down inside. The person being fucked can push the shit down onto the cock and out so the person doing the fucking is literally fucking the shit, or one can say they are fucking the shit out of the other person as they pull it out on their cock.
Unlike dick-painting (which is inadvertent) shit-fucking is an intentional act, engaged in for mutual pleasure (or at least, pleasure paired with consent), as a sexual fetish. From another point of view, shit-fucking could be seem as extreme dick-painting, dick-painting carried towards completion (as well as on purpose). It’s a not uncommon sexual fantasy — fantasy, not act, because nobody has to clean up afterwards, and nobody has to deal with the smell — so a more common subject of porn than you might have supposed.
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