Dear Meagan29,

"Tea bagging" is a slang term for when a person stimulates a man's testicles with her or his mouth. Some people use "tea bagging" to refer to the act of lowering one's scrotum into another person's mouth.

Compared to sexual intercourse, oral contact with the testicles is relatively low-risk, safer sex. Most people are likely to do it without protection. However, because some sexually transmitted infections, like herpes or HPV, can be spread through skin-to-skin contact, it is possible that someone might further reduce the risk by using a Glyde^® dam or plastic wrap for this kind of oral sex play.

Outside the sexual world, "tea bagging" is a term used by wind surfers and parasailors — you are "tea bagged" when you get dunked underneath choppy waters.

Hope this information helps!

Take care,

teenwire.com^® Editors

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