Sanctum Santorum

“If the Supreme Court says that you have a right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”

The man responsible for the reactionary tripe quoted above, Republican Senator Rick Santorum, has given us — at last — a word for something that really needed snappy name:

santorum /san-TOR-um/ noun 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

Dan Savage’s project to popularise this excellent neologism is at www.spreadingsantorum.com.

Anal sex doesn’t necessarily have to result in “a visit from the senator,” a handy euphemism that’s already in circulation. Anyone who encounters santorum every time he/she has anal sex needs to get a little more fiber in his/her diet, as well as spending a little more time in the can, pre-buttfuckin’.