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"Ladies, Please, Contain Your Orgasms" is a phrase often found as a reverse caption for image macros, usually over a photo of a man with seemingly low sex appeal exhibiting an aura of confidence. It can also be self-applied by a person sharing a photo of themselves.

Origin

The earliest known instance of an image macro using this caption was posted to FunnyJunk^[3] on September 22nd, 2010. The caption was placed over an image of a boy with a freckled boy with a ginger afro and a double chin (shown below). As of August 2013, the image has received a score of 2260 and has been viewed more than 97,000 times.

Spread

In October 2010, this photo was reshared on humor sites DailyHaha^[4] and eBaum's World.^[5] Later that year, "Ladies please contain your orgasms" appeared on at least three additional submissions to FunnyJunk.^[6][7][8] In December 2010, the first Facebook fan page^[2] dedicated to the phrase and original photo was launched, gaining 3,200 likes by August 2013. Sometime that year, a Meme Generator^[9] page using the original photo was created, accruing 685 images as of August 2013.

Throughout 2011, people on message boards like cigar enthusiast forum Puff^[10] and the Vinesauce forums^[11] began to use the phrase when posting pictures of themselves. In July 2011, a second Facebook fan page^[1] for the phrase was created, using a photo of a young child with a mullet, which has gained more than 16,500 likes as of August 2013. "Please contain your orgasms" was used on Reddit for the first time on August 19th, 2011, in a submission to the /r/MachinePorn^[12] subreddit containing a photo of the prototype supersonic fighter Rockwell XFV-12. In 2012 and 2013, additional images using the phrase have been featured on a number of humor sites including We Know Memes^[13], MemeCenter^[14], The Lolbrary^[15] and Cheezburger.^[16]

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