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The buttocks (often called butt in colloquial American speech and arse in British speech) are rounded portions of the anatomy located on the posterior of the pelvic region of the great apes, including humans. The buttocks are formed by the masses of the two gluteal muscles; the gluteus maximus and the gluteus medius,(a.k.a. 'the glutes'.) The superior aspect of the buttock ends at the iliac crest and the lower aspect is outlined by the horizontal gluteal crease. The gluteus maximus has two insertion points: 1/3 superior portion of the linea aspera of the femur, and the superior portion of the iliotibial tractus. The masses of the gluteus maximus muscle are separated by an intermediate gluteal cleft or "crack" in which the anus is situated. They allow primates to sit upright comfortably without needing to rest their weight on their feet, as (for example) cats and dogs must do when they sit upright. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x747, 176 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Buttock ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x747, 176 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Buttock ... Arse is a word for buttocks, commonly used in Commonwealth English. ... Human male pelvis, viewed from front Human female pelvis, viewed from front The pelvis is the bony structure located at the base of the spine (properly known as the caudal end). ... Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes... The gluteus maximus is the largest of the gluteus muscles which are located in the buttock. ... The gluteus maximus is the largest of the gluteus muscles which are located in the buttock. ... Human male pelvis, viewed from front Human female pelvis, viewed from front The pelvis is the bony structure located at the base of the spine (properly known as the caudal end). ... The horizontal gluteal crease is an area of the body of great apes including humans described by a horizontal crease formed by the inferior aspect of the buttocks and the posterior upper leg. ... The gluteus maximus is the largest of the gluteus muscles which are located in the buttock. ... Anterior view of the femur The femur or thigh bone is the longest (length), largest (volume) and strongest (mechanical ability to resist deformity) bone of the human body. ... The gluteal cleft is the groove or crack between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum, so named because it forms the visible border beween the external rounded protrusions of the gluteus maximus muscle. ... Male Anatomy In anatomy, the anus is the external opening of the rectum. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus (Linnaeus, 1758) This article is about the domestic cat. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent evidence. ...

Connotations

Exposing ones own bare buttocks as a protest, a provocation or for fun (kick) is called mooning. Mooning someone is generally considered an act of and for the young, but some adults have been known to practice mooning as well. These adults usually tend be drunk, or perhaps just very much in touch with their inner child. Having one's bare buttocks exposed by another unexpectedly and in public is usually a source of humiliation and is sometimes called a "depantsing" or (an illogical shortening) "pantsing". A wedgie refers to the act of having one's undergarments pulled up through their 'crack' to be exposed over the top of the victim's pants. An atomic wedgie is when the underpants are stretched so far as to go over the victim's head. - Status loss: An adult forced to expose or take punishment on their buttocks may have acquired the status of a child in cultures where spanking of children and not adults is common. For the display of bare skin, as in bare-arse, see Nudity. ... Students at Stanford University mooning at a well-attended protest (and world record attempt) in May 1995 Mooning is the act of displaying ones bare buttocks by lowering the back side of ones trousers and underpants, usually without exposing the front side by bending forward. ... Inner child refers to a concept used in psychology to denote a condition that can be linked back to a childhood experience, physical or emotional. ... A wedgie, also called a Melvin, is the slang term for when underwear bunches up and becomes wedged betwixt the buttocks, or for a prank involving pulling up a victims undershorts to artificially induce this condition, causing anal pain. ...

Many comedians, writers, and others rely on the buttocks in these ways as a source of amusement, comraderie, and fun. Many authority figures, from western parents to eastern judicial systems, rely on the buttocks as a source of discipline, humility and order.

Attraction to the buttocks dates back to when we first started to walk upright, or earlier, and is not limited to our species. Dogs, for example, are attracted to the scent of the rear as it reveals to them much information, including the health of whoever's rear it is.

Some consider well-formed buttocks to be an important part of one's physical attraction. They are very sexy. However, the definition of "well-formed" is up for debate, as sexual aesthetics of the buttocks vary considerably from culture to culture, and from person to person. In species which reproduce sexually, sexual attraction is attraction to other members of the same species for reproduction. ...

Exposure of the buttocks in non-intimate situations may cause feelings of shame, embarassment, or humiliation. For exhibitionists, and voyeurs, this may excite them. ...

Class, gender, and other aspects of culture find poetic expression in the humble instrument of the buttocks. It is quite common to hear phrases that make use of the buttocks as metonym for a whole person. For example, terminating an employee may be expressed as "firing his ass". One might say "move your ass" as an exhortation to greater haste or urgency. Expressed as a function of buttock punishment, defeat or assault becomes "kicking one's ass". Such phrases also may be suggestive of a person's characteristics. For example, difficult people are termed "hard asses". People deemed excessively puritanical or frugal may be termed "tight asses". In rhetoric and cognitive linguistics, metonymy (in Greek meta = after/later and onoma = name) is the use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity. ...

Synonyms

The anatomical Latin name for the buttocks is nates (pronounced /'neɪti:z/ in English), which is plural. The singular, natis, is rarely used. Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet. ...

As buttocks are an object of both shame and fascination, it is not surprising that there are rather a lot of colloquial terms, euphemestic, ironical or other, to refer to them. These include :

• backside, posterior, behind and its derivates (hind-quarters or the childish "hiney"), rear or rear-end, derrière (French for "behind") - all strictly positional descriptions, as the inaccurate use of rump (as in 'rump roast', after a 'hot' spanking), thighs, upper legs; analogous are :
  • aft, stern and poop, naval in origin
  • caboose, originally a ship's galley in wooden cabin on deck; also the "rear end" car of a freight train; considered a cute, G-rated synonym
  • bottom (and the shortening bot as well as childish diminutives "bottie" of botty), but the use of near-homophon booty (black slang for the female body since the 1920s) as famously by K.C. and the Sunshine Band's Shake Your Booty, is an 'artistic liberty'
  • tail (even as there is a tail-bone; but also used for the even more sensual phallus) and tail-end
  • tush or tushy (from the Yiddish / Hebrew "tuchis" or "tochis" meaning "under" or "beneath")
• arse or ass, and (butt-)hole - a pars pro toto (strictly only the actual anal region); also a term of abuse for a person
• bum - of uncertain origin; also a term of abuse for a person
• buns and mounds - shape-metaphors, both usually in the plural
• cheeks, a shape-metaphor within human anatomy, but also used in the singular : left cheek and right cheek; sounds particularly naughty because of the homonym and the adjective cheeky, lending themselves to word puns
• fanny - a socially acceptable term in print, in the United States at least, for many years before some of the bolder terms came along; and a subject of jokes, since "Fannie" can be a woman's name, diminutive of "Frances". However, in British English fanny refers to the female genitals and is considered vulgar.
• fundament (literally "foundation", not common in this general sense in English, but for the butt since 1297)
• breech, a metaphorical sense derived from on older form of the garment breeches (as the French culotte meaning pantoloons, via cul from Latin culus 'butt'), so 'bare breech' means without breeches, i.e. trouserless butt
• seat (of the trousers; or metaphorically) another long-standing socially acceptable term, referring to the use for sitting - but compare the sarcastic use of seat of wisdom and similar expressions, such as 'seat of learning', referring to use as target for an 'educational' spanking.
• prat (British English, origin unknown; as in pratfall, a vaudeville term; also a term of abuse for a person)

REAR-END, often shortened as REAR, is the backside of a person, animal or object such as a vehicle. ... The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the smaller of the two education labor unions in the United States, representing 1. ... For other meanings of the term, see Stern (disambiguation). ... Look up Poop on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The English word poop, derives via the French poupe from the Latin puppis and the Dutch poep Definitions originally, as in Latin, the rear part of a ship, also stern or aft (antonym of bow), as preserved in poop deck and poop... Two cupola cabooses, a transfer caboose and a bay window caboose in Ohio. ... Bottom can refer to: In general, the lowermost part (see Wiktionary:Bottom). ... The proceeds of criminal activity are sometimes referred to as Booty, especially from piratical exploits. ... The word tail in the English language has a number of meanings: Tail (anatomy) is used to describe the rear end of an animals body, especially when it forms a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk; Tail can describe anything like an animals tail in form or position... The Latin word phallus (from the Greek phallos) and its derived adjective phallic, adopted in English and in many modern languages, refers to the penis. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Arse is a word for buttocks, commonly used in Commonwealth English. ... Bum can refer to several different things: // In U.K. slang the buttocks, mostly used by children and it is not offensive. ... A bun is a sweet or plain small bread or a round roll. ... Alternate meanings of barrow: see Barrow-in-Furness for the town of Barrow in Cumbria, England; also Barrow, Alaska in the U.S.; also River Barrow in Ireland. ... The word cheek can mean several things. ... Fanny can have many meanings: People: Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington. ... British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate the form of the written English language in the United Kingdom from other forms of the English language. ... Breeches as worn in America in the latter 18th century: Elijah Boardman by Ralph Earl, 1789. ... An old SEAT 600 The two-door SEAT Ibiza. SEAT is one of the leading car makers in Spain. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Spanking (or smacking, whacking, etc. ... Prat is a commune in the Côtes-dArmor département in France. ... Physical comedy is comedic performance relying mostly on the use of the body to convey humor. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

Related terms

• The word "callipygian" is sometimes used to describe someone with notably attractive buns. The term comes the Greek kallipygos, which literally means "beautiful buttocks". The prefix is also a root of "calligraphy" ("beautiful writing") and "calliope" ("beautiful voice")
• Both the English (in) tails and the Dutch billentikker ('tapping the buttocks') are ironical terms for very formal coats with a significantly longer tail end as part of festive (especially wedding party) dress

Fashion

Clothing can be used to hide or accentuate the buttocks. Some articles are designed specifically to show off the buttocks or to expose them. Wearing only thong underwear or a black vinyl dress with a large hole cut out of the back might be examples. Wearing thong underwear with pants is done to hide "panty lines", creases in the pant caused by certain underwear that breaks the smooth line of the body. Both of these choices are under taken for style. However, some articles merely have utilitarian features. The butt flap in long underwear, used to allow baring only the bottom with a simple gesture (as for hygiene), is a good example. That flap was so ubiquitous that it was used in cartoons and comics for generations.

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Emphasis on one part or another of the body, especially the female body, tends to shift with generations. The "Gay 90s" (1890s) were well-known for the fashion trend called the bustle, which provided even the skinniest woman with a seemingly huge rear end. Like long underwear with its flap, this clothing style was acknowledged in popular media for generations afterward. The popularity of this fashion is glaringly obvious in the famous Georges Seurat painting shown here. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte painted by Georges-Pierre Seurat in 1884 – 1886. ... Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte painted by Georges-Pierre Seurat in 1884 – 1886. ... The ladys dress in this 1880s fashion plate is supported by a bustle. ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ...

Popular culture

There are endless references, even during the days of the Hays Office. The rules seemed to be that the buttocks could be referenced, but only in a presumably non-sexual context, like spanking of a child and/or in a humorous situation. The Production Code (also known as the Hays Code) was a set of guidelines governing the production of motion pictures. ...

Early in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Henry is holding the gate open for Miss Gulch, and at a seemingly appropriate time he lets it go, and it swats the disagreeable old lady in the rear... emphasized by a musical "thunk" on the soundtrack's underscore. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Wizard of Oz is the title of several films based on the L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Wizard of Oz (1910) The Wizard of Oz (1921), director unknown The Wizard of Oz (1925), directed by Larry Semon The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie), directed...

The actress Edna May Oliver was known for being "bottom heavy". In a 1940 Warner Brothers cartoon called The Hardship of Miles Standish, a caricature of Ms. Oliver (as Priscilla) is seen fighting off Indians. Although many arrows come her direction, she yells, "You never even touched me!" Then she looks back and sees several arrows embedded in her ample rear end, and begins jumping around and yelping in pain. (In a cruel irony that "hit close to home" in the sense of this topic, Ms. Oliver died from an intestinal ailment). Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American film actress. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Warner Bros. ...

There is a scene in the 1942 movie Yankee Doodle Dandy in which Cohan's father wishes to punish his disobedient son. He can't hit him anywhere that would show, or that would otherwise impact the family's vaudeville act. The frustrated father finally says, "Here's one place with no talent!" He turns young George over his knee and begins spanking, as flour (left over from a stunt in the preceding stage show) flys up and emphasizes the apparent impact of the blows. This article is about the year. ... Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical film about George M. Cohan, starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

The comic character Ado Annie in the 1955 movie musical Oklahoma finds herself on the receiving end of this subject at least twice. First, she mentions something (not quite getting the point) about having been compared to a Persian cat, because they both "have soft, round tails". Then, during the song The Farmer and the Cowman, she makes a funny comment, and Aunt Eller swats her on the bottom. 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oklahoma is a South Central state of the United States (with strong Southern, Western, and Midwestern influences) and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla. ...

The 1956 horror film The Bad Seed has a fairly silly postscript ending in which the mother spanks her naughty child, for having murdered several people during the course of the film's plot. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Movie poster for The Bad Seed The Bad Seed is a novel by William March which was adapted into a play by Maxwell Anderson. ...

In 1966 Yoko Ono made an experimental film known as No. 4, but colloquially known as Bottoms. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Yoko Ono. ...

At one point in the 1971 James Bond adventure Diamonds Are Forever, Jill St. John has a square transmitter stashed into the round part of her bikini bottom, not very subtly. The villain (Charles Gray) notices this object and says, "We're showing a bit more cheek than usual, aren't we, Miss Case?" before roughing her up for her treachery. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Diamonds Are Forever, published in 1956, is the fourth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... Jill St. ... Charles Gray (August 29, 1928 - March 7, 2000) was a British actor, born in Bournemouth, Dorset. ...

In the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit, Frog (Sally Field) tells the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) that a previous boyfriend had rejected her because, "My cheeks are too big". After a pregnant pause, she pinches her own face and says: "These cheeks!" 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. ...

By the 1970s, television was also becoming more liberal. There was an episode of The Bob Newhart Show in which it came out that Bob's secretary, Carol, had once gotten a tattoo on her behind, which she was now looking to have removed. Bob seemed to sympathize, and then commented with a slight smirk, "We don't want you to be the 'butt' of any jokes!" This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series. ...

In an episode of One Day at a Time, Annie (Bonnie Franklin) was having a dialogue with herself in the mirror, and sighed, "Nanny Annie with the great big fanny!" Opening titles from 1976. ... Bonnie Franklin, as Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. ...

In an infamous episode of The Newlywed Game from 1977, host Bob Eubanks asked the husbands, "What's the most unusual place you've made love?" In the next segment, the first wife who was asked that question came back with, "In the ass!" The line was blipped, and whether it ever actually aired seems to be a matter of debate... in fact the incident itself was long thought to be an urban legend... but it actually did happen, as revealed on a "Game Show Bloopers" TV special in 2002. The Newlywed Game was an American television game show where newly-married couples answered questions to find out how well the husband and wife knew each other. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Bob Eubanks (born January 8, 1938, in Flint, Michigan) is an American radio and television personality. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In a nighttime talk show, Lee Marvin happened to mention that he had received a purple heart during World War II, and the host made the mistake (?) of asking him where he was shot: "In the ass!" It being late at night, and merely truthful and not lascivious, the line was not blipped. Lee Marvin, (February 19, 1924 - August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the...

In the 1985 movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure, star Paul Reubens ("Pee Wee Herman") responds to someone who says, "Yes, but..." with the comment "Everyone I know has a big 'but'!" 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pee-wees Big Adventure is a 1985 film directed by Tim Burton and written by Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, and Michael Varhol. ... Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. ...

In the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, the title character has just received a medal from President Lyndon Johnson, who makes the mistake of asking Forrest where he was shot: "In the but-tocks, sir!" He then turns around and drops his pants to show LBJ exactly where his wound is. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Forrest Gump is the lead character of the eponymous 1985 novel by Winston Groom, and of the 1994 Paramount Pictures film based on the novel. ... fuckwitt is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908–January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician. ...

Rolling Stone magazine deemed the 1990s the "Decade of the Butt" because numerous songs, mostly in the hip-hop and R'n'B genres, were made gloriying this body part. Examples include "Da Butt," "Rump Shaker," "Da Dip", and of course "Baby Got Back." In fact, a compilation called Monster Booty was released encompassing many of these tunes. Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music and popular culture. ... A musical group who made the popular song, I like to move it from the popular movie Madagascar ...

Well before the hip-hop era, there was the disco era, with the controversial (at the time) number called "Shake Your Booty", by K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Going back to the early Rock 'n Roll era, there was "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis, which was not so explicit, it just assumed the listener had the right mental picture. The last step of the 1996 dance craze called the Macarena involved putting hands on hips and swaying emphatically. KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. ... Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On is a song, written in 1957 by Dave Williams & Sunny David. ... Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist, as well as an early pioneer of the rock and roll movement. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Macarena is a song by Los del Río about a woman of the same name. ...

In the last part of the 20th century, this body part has really "come out of the closet" and become a frequent popular culture topic, as with the famous entertainer Jennifer Lopez, whose shapely rear is as often-discussed as Dolly Parton's "bosoms" were at the height of her career. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Jennifer Lynn López (also known as J. Lo, born July 24, 1969) is a well-known American actress, singer, fashion designer, dancer and all-around cultural icon of Puerto Rican descent. ... Dolly Parton, 2005 Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American country singer, songwriter, composer and actress. ...

Miami rapper, Trina became well known for her ample and curvaceous buttocks within the first years of the 21st century. The entertainer is featured in the May/June 2004 issue of King Magazine. In an interview with the publication, she states "People say the first thing they wanna see is my ass." This article is about the city in Florida. ... Photo of Trina from The Source magazine 2004. ... The buttocks are the two masses of muscle (gluteus maximus, sometimes abbreviated to glute) and fat covering the posterior aspect of the human (primate) pelvis. ... In calendars based on the Christian Era or Common Era, such as the Gregorian calendar, the 21st century is the current century, as of this writing. ... This article is about the month of May. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ass has several meanings: in zoology, an ass is the domestic donkey and its wild relative the onager, also known as a half ass - animal of the horse family as a doublet of arse (see that article): literally buttocks - an area of the body. ...

External links

• 8b. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh: Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body, 1918.
• Corporal punishment site

See also

• Booty
• Bootylicious

The proceeds of criminal activity are sometimes referred to as Booty, especially from piratical exploits. ... Bootylicious is a 2001 hit single by Destinys Child from their album Survivor. ...

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