In sex talk, how many bases are there and what do they all mean?
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00:00 In Sex Talk, How Many Bases Are There And What Do They All Mean?
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01:14 Accepted Answer Score 36
02:25 Answer 3 Score 53
02:37 Answer 4 Score 18
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ANSWER 1
Score 53
Here's a diagram that may help you visualize it. (Sorry, no XXX rating here.)
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 36
One of the other answers has provided a nice link to the Wikipedia entry for baseball metaphors for sex. There are, as the top comment on this question notes, four bases in baseball, and these have corresponding sex acts associated with them.
The sexual contact associated with each base has evolved dramatically since I was a teenager, although "home base" or "home run" has always meant intercourse, and "first base" has always meant kissing or snogging.
To use the expression correctly, you get or make it to a base, per my comment:
I got to second base with that girl yesterday.
I didn't think I had a chance, but I made it to third base with her last night.
You don't use "hit" with "bases," but you can use the baseball terms that correspond to hits:
I hit a triple when I took her home last night.
means to get to third base. It's double for second base, single for first base.
You can also "score," which is the same as hit a home run or get to home base.
About the House quotation, if I interpret it correctly, they had intravaginal sex twice and then she performed oral sex on him. If we say home base = fourth base, that's 4 + 4 − 3 = 5, the subtraction because he was receiving instead of giving. But this is a joke, and probably not intended to be analyzed too closely.
And here's another handy diagram.
ANSWER 3
Score 18
Although this wasn't what "House" referred to, Urban Dictionary lists fifth base as anal sex.
Talking about fifth base when there's really only four bases reminds me of the expression UpToEleven.
If you want to downvote me for using Urban Dictionary, that's fine. If I could, I'd downvote myself!
ANSWER 4
Score 7
This is called Baseball metaphors for sex
There's normally no fifth base, and House was actually playing with the terms. He explains this by saying "That's two home runs, and then she gives me back a triple."
Home run is defined:
Home run (Fourth base) is the act of penetrative intercourse.
Edit: Triple, I think, refers to getting to the third base, The third base refers to:
Third base is oral stimulation of the genitalia.