It happened on television’s The Newlywed Game. The host asked contestants, “Where was the strangest place you ever made whoopee?” The first two wives confessed their out-of-bedroom experiences, but the third wife had misunderstood the question. Her answer in bold black letters on white poster board read, “In the Butt.”
And so anal sex entered the popular culture on prime-time TV. And, we learned that heterosexual men found pleasure in a sex act that had long been thought the secret domain of gay men.
