To not know what a glory hole is at age 40???

[justcurious40]

My DH brought this clip to my attention earlier:

(about 3 minutes in)

And was shocked that, at 40 years old, I had no idea what a "glory hole" is. I thought he was BU, but everyone else in the programme had hysterics and all knew what it was, so am I just stupidly naive/ignorant?

There's a coffee store in Toronto called Glory Hole Doughnuts.....

A fluffy gets them hard before and keeps hard during scene changes. Less so now with the online porn On a phone.

Pretty sure there's a glory hole in The Sweetest Thing? Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair film.

I'm 23 and I've known what a glory hole is for years haha

What the fuck is a fluffer?

Knew what a glory hole is through dh.
I was shocked/grossed out and intrigued at the same time.

Could someone pls put me out of my misery & tell me what a glory hole is? Pleeeeasee?

I found out through a gay neighbour of mine. He was reminiscing about a public lavatory in the Clerkenwell area.

He said to his gay friend. 'There were that many glory holes drilled in the partition wall, it collapsed in the end'.

Tiss just Google it.

Do female porn stars get fluffers?

Maybe a Poldark lookalike chopping wood in the corner or similar.

|Glory hole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_hole_(sexual_slang)

I think of The Tipping Point as The Chase's fluffer

This feels like school all over again - not knowing the terms the cool kids know!

Hardly. I knew what it was but out of curious I looked to see when it was defined on urban dictionary and it was 2006.

Haha! I'm about your age, but I learned about glory holes by reading my Mum's copy of Scruples by Judith Krantz at what was probably far too young an age.

Very education those sex and shopping bonkbusters /nostalgic.

The internet has made teenage boys even grosser and you overhear a lot when your classes are male dominated.

Just teenage boys?

Fucking hell, you're clearly new to Mumsnet

I'm 45 and have known since secondary school what a glory hole is! I think I read about it in a Shirley Conrad type novel.

We were all pretty scandalised by the idea...

Scruples was published in 1978, apparently. Obviously I read it at some point later, I wasn't that precocious.

Erm. A glory hole is a cupboard under the stairs.

My DD googled 'daisy chains' last summer. New internet and no parent lock set up. That was an eye opener

Cartright I'm pretty sure that was the book I learned about them from, too!!

MsVestibule was it also Scruples do you think? Or were glory holes de rigueur in 1970s trashy novels, I wonder?

'Crowdblundering', you just made my day with 'poem stars'. I now have all kinds of weird images in my head involving quite obscene poetry slams! 😂

PS My education on glory holes was entirely based on 'Scruples'. Heck, child of the eighties, what can I say?

MsVestibule cross post! Although I did quite like the idea of all these authors of having a check list of what sexual scenarios they had to include.

(It was Sergio, the fashion designer, who visited glory holes. He was having an affair with Alan the ?other fashion designer, who was also engaged to Valentine, the fashion designer.

In retrospect, there were a lot of fashion designers in Scruples.)

I think the invention of viagra pretty much put fluffers out of business. I don't even know how I know that.

I'm 45. Every day is a school day on MN

There was a fair degree of pearl clutching a few years ago when a pub called the Morningside Glory opened in Edinburgh, due to the creative signwriting. My mother asked me to explain why it was such a scandal. I told her not to worry about it.

To be fair she didn't hear the f-word until she was 21 so she had a fairly sheltered upbringing to say the least