Editing Fisting (section)

== In popular culture ==
References to fisting can be found in art, music, cinema and other forms of popular culture. Examples include:

=== Art ===
* The [[San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley]], opened in 2017, honors Steve McEachern (owner of the [[Catacombs (sex club)|Catacombs]])<ref name="1occupytampa.org" /> and Bert Herrman (a fisting community leader, author, and publisher), among other members of the [[leather subculture|leather community]].<ref name="A&A">{{cite web |author=Cindy |date=July 17, 2017 |title=Reginold Alley's Leather Memoir |url=http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/ringold-alleys-leather-memoir.html |access-date=July 7, 2018 |website=Public Art and Architecture from Around the World |publisher=Art and Architecture}}</ref><ref name="Jewish">{{cite news |last=Paull |first=Laura |date=June 21, 2018 |title=Honoring gay leather culture with art installation in SoMa alleyway |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2018/06/21/honoring-gay-leather-culture-with-art-installation-in-soma-alleyway/ |access-date=June 23, 2018 |newspaper=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]] |publisher=}}</ref>
* [[Erotic photography]] by [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], including "Double Fist Fuck" (1977),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Double Fist Fuck (2016.57.137) |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109GDQ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[J. Paul Getty Museum]] |language=en}}</ref> "Fist Fuck / Full Body" (1978),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fist Fuck / Full Body (M.2016.152.139) |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/2233389 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Los Angeles County Museum of Art|LACMA Collections]]}}</ref> "Helmut Fist Fuck" (1978),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Helmut Fist Fuck (2016.57.140) |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109GDT |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=[[J. Paul Getty Museum]] |language=en}}</ref> and "Helmut and Brooks, N.Y.C." (1978).<ref name="auto">{{cite web |date= |title=Helmut and Brooks, N.Y.C. (2011.9.41.10) |url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/254559/robert-mapplethorpe-helmut-and-brooks-nyc-american-1978/ |accessdate=2020-01-03 |publisher=[[J. Paul Getty Trust|Getty]]}}</ref><ref name="independent1998">{{cite news |author=Jason Bennetto |date=1998-10-01 |title=Mapplethorpe images cleared |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/mapplethorpe-images-cleared-1175348.html |accessdate=2020-01-03 |work=[[The Independent]] |publisher=}}</ref>
* [[Erotica]] by [[Tom of Finland]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Street |first=Mikelle |date=2021-01-04 |title=Your Favorite (Explicit) Tom of Finland Art Is Now a Set of Magnets |url=https://www.out.com/art/2021/1/04/your-favorite-explicit-tom-finland-art-now-set-magnets#toggle-gdpr |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Out (magazine)|Out]] |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Dom Orejudos]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom of Finland Foundation Galleries, Galleries of Artists: Etienne/Stephen |url=https://www.tomoffinland.org/toff-gallery/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=[[Tom of Finland Foundation]] |date=February 8, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> [[The Hun (cartoonist)|Bill Schmeling]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poster of Leatherman/Biker in Chaps fisting a bound nude man with can of Crisco at feet #1/10 by The Hun [Bill Schmeling] - 1981 |url=https://biblio.com.au/book/poster-leatherman-biker-chaps-fisting-bound/d/1397088558 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Biblio.com|Biblio]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Chuck Arnett]],<ref name=":22">{{cite book |doi=10.25549/one-c4-46786 |doi-access=free |date=2021 |title=Posters and graphic materials |chapter=Red Star Saloon S.F. |series=[[ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives]] |publisher=University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chuck Arnett collection |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82z1cb6/entire_text/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=[[Online Archive of California]] |series=Collection Number: 1997-42}}</ref> [[Gengoroh Tagame]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bayly |first=Zac |date=2024-08-22 |title=Gengoroh Tagame: Japanese Author of Brutal Sadomasochistic Comics Is Actually a Big Softy |url=https://buttmagazine.com/interviews/gengoroh-tagame/ |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=[[Butt (magazine)|Butt Magazine]] |series=Issue 33 |language=en}}</ref> [[Sean (cartoonist)|John Klamik]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syndicate Sex by Sean 1970 John Klamik Rare 1st Ed 32pgs Gay Comic Pictorial, Hudson Bookstore NYC M28288 |url=https://oxxbridgegalleries.com/products/syndicate-sex-by-sean-1970-john-klamik-rare-1st-ed-32pgs-gay-comic-pictorial-hudson-bookstore-nyc-m28288?variant=46874114457842 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Oxxbridge Galleries |language=en}}</ref> and [[Drubskin]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Artworks |url=https://www.drubskin.com/2023/,%20https://www.drubskin.com/2023/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=[[Drubskin]] |language=en-US }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* ''[[Hanky Panky (painting)|Hanky Panky]]'' (2020) by [[Kent Monkman]]
[[File:Ringold Alley, San Francisco.jpg|thumb|[[San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley]]]]

==== Performance art ====
* In ''Solar Anus'' (1999), [[Ron Athey]] challenged the [[Feminization (activity)|feminization]] and [[Gay sex roles|sexual roles]] associated with male penetration by both giving and receiving penetration through self-fisting.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gallego |first1=Julia R. |date=2014 |title=The Dissector's Cut, the Wound and the Orifice: Seeing Ron Athey's performances through a cultural anatomy of the vagina |journal=[[Performance Research]] |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=74–84 |doi=10.1080/13528165.2014.947124 }}</ref>
* In ''Being Green'' (2009), [[Jess Dobkin]] was fisted while dressed as the [[hand puppet]] [[Kermit the Frog]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Being Green |url=https://www.jessdobkin.com/jd_work/being-green/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=[[Jess Dobkin]] |language=en-US |archive-date=January 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114222122/https://www.jessdobkin.com/jd_work/being-green/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dupuis |first=Chris |date=2021-09-16 |title=Jess Dobkin, a Performance Artist With a Unique Sense of Humor |url=http://hyperallergic.com/677439/jess-dobkin-a-performance-artist-with-a-unique-sense-of-humor/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=[[Hyperallergic]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2013, [[Detroit]]-based artist Jerry Vile placed a 4-ft. tall can of Crisco in front of the fist-shaped ''[[Monument to Joe Louis]]'' for "helping to ease the pain of [[Detroit bankruptcy|Detroit's bankruptcy]]."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-08-08 |title=Detroit's massive jar of Crisco up for sale on eBay |url=https://www.michiganradio.org/offbeat/2013-08-08/detroits-massive-jar-of-crisco-up-for-sale-on-ebay |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Michigan Radio|Michigan Public Media]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Olshansky |first=Clara |date=2013-07-31 |title=Artist Gives Detroit Crisco, "To Ease the Pain" |url=http://artfcity.com/2013/07/31/artist-gives-detroit-crisco-to-ease-the-pain/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Art F City |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Music ===
* The [[album cover]] for ''[[Rod McKuen#LGBT activism|Slide... Easy In]]'' by [[Rod McKuen]] (1977) depicts gay porn star [[Bruno (adult performer)|Bruno]]'s fist clenching "Disco" [[shortening]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Frank |first=Gillian |date=2015-02-19 |title=Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen |url=https://notchesblog.com/2015/02/19/not-by-my-definition-remembering-rod-mckuens-queer-life-and-times/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=NOTCHES |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":13">1977 cover art for ''Slide Easy In'' by Rod McKuen, digitized and published on [http://glamjacknyc.blogspot.com/2015/01/ Blogspot.com] on January 29, 2015. Inscription on cover reads, in part: "If this album sounds different, it tried to be. The performers, producers, the players (whether part of the enormous rhythm section or the full symphony complement of strings) knew this was a project everyone had to get into; not just on the surface, but deeply—and together. If you don't feel "easy in" then perhaps your threshold of pain or pleasure needs looking into. [...] Photos of Bruno courtesy of Target Studios. Bruno Courtesy of The Bull Pen. Special thanks to Target."</ref> The inscription states "this was a project everyone had to get into; not just on the surface, but deeply—and together. If you don't feel "easy in" then perhaps your threshold of pain or pleasure needs looking into."<ref name=":13" /> (The European edition of the album featured a different cover because the original was considered "too outrageous.")<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doyle |first=JD |title=Rod McKuen "Slide...Easy In" LP |url=https://www.queermusicheritage.com/oct2012mckuen.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Queer Music Heritage}}</ref>
* "[[Welcome to the Pleasuredome|Krisco Kisses]]" (1984) by [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hilton |first=Danny |date=2014-03-28 |title=The 10 best songs about gay sex |url=https://www.queerty.com/the-10-best-songs-about-gay-sex-20140328 |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=[[Queerty]]}}</ref>
* "[[Stinkfist]]" (1996) by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* Music video for "[[House of Air (song)|House of Air]]" (2017) by [[Brendan Maclean]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Michelson |first=Noah |date=2017-02-10 |title=This Singer's 'Shocking' XXX Music Video Is A 'Royal F**K You' To The Trump Era |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brendan-maclean-house-of-air_n_589dc5d9e4b03df370d5811c |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=[[Huffington Post]] |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Monument to Joe Louis--.jpg|thumb|The ''[[Monument to Joe Louis]]'', which made headlines in 2013 for what was widely considered a fisting joke]]

=== Film ===
* ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' (1979)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bray |first=Catherine |date=2023-05-19 |title='An irresistible mix of art and genitals': Caligula finally comes to Cannes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/19/an-irresistible-mix-of-art-and-genitals-caligula-finally-comes-to-cannes |access-date=2024-01-14 |work=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref>
* ''[[Cruising (film)|Cruising]]'' (1980)<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Rachel Rabbit |date=2019-04-18 |title=Sex Scenes: 'Cruising' Through 1970s Gay NYC |url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4bd4/sex-scenes-cruising-through-1970s-gay-nyc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419035703/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4bd4/sex-scenes-cruising-through-1970s-gay-nyc |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 19, 2019 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Garage (magazine)|Garage]] |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' (1999)<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hochman |first=David |date=1999-07-09 |title=Putting the 'R' in ''South Park'' |url=https://ew.com/article/1999/07/09/putting-r-south-park/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Usher |first=Shaun |date=2009-09-30 |title=P.S. This is my favorite memo ever |url=https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/ps-this-is-my-favorite-memo-ever |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=Letters of Note |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|Fifty Shades of Grey]]'' (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Joy Y. |date=2015-02-16 |title=Least sexy scene in 'Fifty Shades' is also the most progressive |url=https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/least-sexy-scene-fifty-shades-also-the-most-progressive-msna530936 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=[[MSNBC]] |language=en}}</ref>

==== Pornographic films ====
* ''[[Hand in Hand Films|Drive]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Candy Stripers (film)|Candy Strippers]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Other Side of Aspen]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Bijou Theater (Chicago)#Bijou Video|Erotic Hands]]'' (1980)<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |title=Erotic Hands |url=https://gay.aebn.com/gay/movies/125210/erotic-hands |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=[[AEBN]]}}</ref>
* ''[[Tampa Tushy Fest, Part 1]]'' (1999)

=== Television ===
* In 1993, [[Julian Clary]] joked "I've just been fisting [[Norman Lamont]] 'round the corner" during a live broadcast of the [[National Comedy Awards|British Comedy Awards]] viewed by 13 million people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Emma |date=2019-09-23 |title=Julian Clary doesn't regret that infamous Norman Lamont joke |url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/23/julian-clary-doesnt-regret-infamous-norman-lamont-gag-good-joke-10793365/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |language=en}}</ref>
* In ''[[South Park]]'' season 5 episode 14 ("[[Butters' Very Own Episode]]," December 2001), [[Butters Stotch|Butters]]' father watches the film "Fisting Firemen 9" at a gay [[Adult movie theater|adult theater]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vivona |first=Veronica |date=2017-06-24 |title=South Park: 15 Times Butters Didn't Know What Was Going On |url=https://screenrant.com/south-park-times-butters-had-no-idea-oblivious/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |language=en}}</ref>
* Judges and contestants on ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race]]'' and its [[RuPaul's Drag Race#Spin-offs|spin-offs]] are known to sometimes make fisting-related jokes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henderson |first=Eric |date=2018-03-23 |title=RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Season 10, Episode 1, "10s Across the Board" |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-10-episode-1-10s-across-the-board/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Slant Magazine]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Frank |first=Jason P. |date=2023-06-16 |title=RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Recap: Yes, And? |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-recap-season-8-episode-7-forensic-queens.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Nolfi |first=Joey |date=2017-06-01 |title=Watch 'Drag Race' Queens Crack RuPaul up During Shady Puppet Challenge |url=https://ew.com/tv/2017/06/01/rupaul-drag-race-shady-puppet-challenge/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>

=== Literature ===
* ''All'' trilogy (1969–1971) by [[Dirk Vanden]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gunn |first=Drewey Wayne |date=2014-11-06 |title=Remembering Dirk Vanden |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2014/11/remembering-dirk-vanden/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=[[Lambda Literary]] |language=en}}</ref>
* ''The Fist Fucker's Manual'' (circa 1970) by Art Hamilton<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSgvGwAACAAJ |title=The Fist Fucker's Manual |date= |publisher=Art Hamilton |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fisting Pedagogy |url=https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua/en/works/4NweEk6l/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=OUCI |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Faggots (novel)|Faggots]]'' (1978) by [[Larry Kramer]]<ref name=":2" />
* ''Maitreya'' (1978) by [[Severo Sarduy]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Riobó |first1=Carlos |date=2013 |title=Raiding the 'Anales' of the Empire: Sarduy's Subversions of the Latin American Boom |journal=[[Hispanic Review]] |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=331–352 |doi=10.1353/hir.2013.0029 |jstor=43279288}}</ref>
* ''[[The Divine Androgyne According To Purusha]]'' (1981) by [[Purusha Larkin]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Saylor |first=Steven |date=1982-04-29 |orig-date= |title=A Search for Ecstasy |url=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Sentinal/1982_SFS_Vol09_No12_Apr_29.pdf |access-date=2024-01-14 |work=[[San Francisco Sentinel|The Sentinel]] |location=San Francisco |pages=11 |via=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |volume=9 |issue=12}}</ref>
* ''The Intelligent Man's Guide to Handball'' ''(The Sexual Sport)'' (1983) by R.A. Fournier<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fournier |first=R. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOdRywAACAAJ |title=The Intelligent Man's Guide to Handball (the Sexual Sport) |date=1983 |publisher=R.A. Fournier |location=New York |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Trust: The Handbook: A Guide to the Sensual and Spiritual Art of Handballing'' (1991) by Bert Herrman<ref name="Herrman" />
* ''[[A Hand in the Bush|A Hand in the Bush: The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting]]'' (1997) by Deborah Addington<ref name=":7" />

=== Clubs ===
* [[Crisco Disco]], discotheque in New York City (1970s-1980s)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sawyer |first=Drew |date=2007 |editor-last= |editor-first= |others=Instructed by Sev Fowles |title=Crisco Or How To Do Queer Theory With Things |url=https://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Thing Theory (2007) |series=Anthropology Department G6085 |publisher=[[Columbia University]]}}</ref>
* [[Catacombs (sex club)|Catacombs]], sex club in San Francisco (1975 to 1981, reopened at another location from 1982 to 1984)<ref name=":15" />
* [[Mineshaft (gay club)|Mineshaft]], bar and sex club in New York City (1976–1985)
* [[Caldron (sex club)|Caldron]], sex club in San Francisco (1980–1984)
* Crisco Club, gay bar and sex club in [[Florence|Florence, Italy]] (est. 1981)<ref>{{Cite web |title=LGBTQ Florence |url=https://www.feelflorence.it/en/dalle-redazioni/lgbtq-florence |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Feel Florence - [[Florence|Municipality of Florence]] Official Tourism Website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Una Bella Storia |url=http://www.criscoclub.com/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Crisco Club - American Crisco Club Firenze}}</ref>
* [[La Fistinière]], fisting guesthouse in [[Assigny, Cher|Assigny, France]] (2007–2018)
* Le One Way, gay bar and sex club in Paris, France<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.25549/one-c4-46937 |doi-access=free |date=2021 |title=Posters and graphic materials |chapter=One Way |series=[[ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives]] |publisher=University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=One Way |url=https://www.parislgbt.com/en/listing/one-way/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Paris LGBT+ Guide |language=Fr}}</ref>
[[File:La Fistinière.jpg|thumb|[[La Fistinière]], a fisting club in France]]

=== Other ===
* In the [[handkerchief code]], the color red signifies interest in fisting.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reilly |first1=Andrew |last2=Saethre |first2=Eirik J. |date=October 2013 |title=The hankie code revisited: From function to fashion |journal=Critical Studies in Men's Fashion |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=69–78 |doi=10.1386/csmf.1.1.69_1}}</ref>
* In 1980, ''[[Drummer (magazine)|Drummer]]'' reported plans for an annual "Mr. Fist Contest" organized by the Rodeo Riders, a Chicago-based [[Leather subculture|leather club]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1980 |title=REDOUBT |journal=[[Drummer (magazine)|Drummer]] |location=San Francisco |publisher=Alternate Publishing |volume=5 |issue=38 |pages=51}}</ref>
* In 2011, adult performers [[Jiz Lee]] and Courtney Trouble designated [[October 21]] as "International Fisting Day."<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-10-21 |title=International Fisting Day: Courtney Trouble Says Put Your Dukes Up (and In) Against Censorship |url=https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/international-fisting-day-courtney-trouble-says-put-your-dukes-up-and-in-against-censorship/article_461a43e1-30cf-5d4c-9bbb-7a20a5c3e4ab.html |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=[[SF Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":15" /> In 2025, Fist Club Europe [[Registered association (Germany)|e.V.]] designated [[May 5]] as a new date for the holiday.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-05-04 |title=Hands up for International Fisting Day |url=https://qnews.com.au/hands-up-for-international-fisting-day/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=[[QNews]] |language=en-AU}}</ref>
[[File:Red-Hanky-Handkerchief-Code.jpg|thumb|In the [[handkerchief code]], the color red signifies interest in fisting.]]