About

Mormon Soaking refers to a sexual act practiced by Mormons where the male inserts his penis into the female's vagina and stays completely still for an extended period of time. Soaking is used as a loophole to get around rules in the Mormon faith against having premarital sex. Sometimes soaking is accompanied by jump humping, which involves a third party, the hump jumper, jumping up and down on the bed in order to simulate thrusting for the couple. The practice allegedly became popular at the Mormon institute Brigham Young University (BYU) and has been documented online since as early as 2009. Soaking is also sometimes known as "floating."

Origin

One of the earliest mentions of "soaking" online was posted to the Newschoolers^[1] forum in 2009 by user breck-love, who describes it as a "great bonding experience" that still allows Mormons to go to heaven. On October 15th of that year, an Urban Dictionary^[2] user defined the term under the name "dick soak," gaining over 600 likes in 12 years. Another Urban Dictionary^[3] user defined the term using the name "soaking" on July 14th, 2011.

Soaking is allegedly popular at Brigham Young University, which insists its students follow the Mormon faith. Soaking was discussed in a post to Reddit's /r/exmormon^[4] board on September 19th, 2012, by a user wondering if it's real, with commenters specifically mentioning its popularity at BYU. On July 18th, 2017, MEL Magazine^[5] published a piece on soaking where they interviewed a Mormon who claimed to have soaked before.

Spread

Soaking became a particular topic of increasing interest in 2019. On November 17th, 2019, Barstool Sports posted a video to YouTube^[13] investigating soaking, speaking with someone who claims to have soaked, gaining over 274,000 views in two years (shown below). In the video, the interviewee claims that soaking has been allowed in the church for decades and that former BYU player Brandon Davies, who was expelled from the school and kicked off the basketball team in 2011 for having premarital sex,^[14] was soaking, which is why he was not excommunicated from the Mormon faith. At the 8:30 mark in the video, an interviewed student mentions the act of jump humping, although not by name.

On March 9th, 2021, TikToker^[11] @exmolex posted a video responding to a comment asking what soaking is, where she describes the act of soaking, gaining over 5 million views in six months (shown below).

On September 5th, 2021, TikToker and alleged Mormon @funeralpotatoslut posted a video sharing the Urban Dictionary definition of soaking, gaining over 77,000 views in three weeks (shown below, left). On September 6th, she posted a lip dub video about someone Googling "soaking," gaining over 400,000 views in a similar span of time (shown below, right).

She continued to upload videos about soaking over the course of the month. The videos appear to be satire, with @funeralpotatoslut playing a Mormon. On September 6th, she posted a skit where she talks with the first person to ever soak, asking him why he would do that, gaining over 47,000 views in three weeks (shown below).

On September 24th @funeralpotatoslut posted a TikTok^[6] of herself jumping on a bed to a Taylor Swift song while the text-to-speech voice says, "when your bestie is called to soak in a BYU dorm and you have to jump hump for her," gaining over 3.3 million views in three days (shown below).

That day, Twitter^[7][8] users @mattisbear and @hello_caitlin shared screenshots of the TikTok expressing shock and confusion about soaking and jump humping, gaining over 6,200 likes and 1,000 retweets and 29,000 likes and 3,300 retweets respectively in three days. On September 25th, Twitter^[9] user @bear_criminal posted a meme about trying to convince a Mormon girl to soak, gaining over 5,800 likes in two days (shown below). On the same day, Twitter^[10] user @jenny2x4 posted, "Dear lord please forgive me I accidentally did a thrust while soaking," gaining over 52,000 likes and 2,300 retweets in the same span of time. A screenshot of@mattisbear's tweet was shared on Reddit's /r/facepalm^[12] board, gaining over 98,500 upvotes in two days.

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