What Is A Rusty Trombone And How Do You Perform It? - Metro

When you tell people you want to be a journalist they often assume you’re going to go into war zones and bring back essential human stories. 

In this instance, they would be wrong. Instead, I’m going to explain to you what a ‘rusty trombone’ is.

What is a rusty trombone?

Often used as the punchline of jokes, a rusty trombone is a sex act which consists of giving your partner a hand job while also performing analingus on them.

(Analingusis also known as rimming – where you use your tongue to stimulate your partner’s anus. You can read more about rimming right here.)

Why would anyone do that?

It’s a good question, because the logistics of both rimming someone and giving them a handjob is quite a complex task, made harder if your head isn’t around anus height when you’re kneeling down.

However, anecdotally, the sensation of both being rimmed and receiving feels really nice, and apparently ‘makes it feel like you’re having sex with more than one person at the same time’.

How do you do it?

You know how to give a hand job, right? Basically it’s a case of being firm enough, but not too firm. Some of the women’s magazines started a rumour in the early noughties that men wanted their penises held extremely firmly which lead to some extremely aggressive tugging.

Don’t do that.

Kneel behind your partner, having read our guide to rimming, and – well – go to town. Reach around, and stimulate their genitals.

There’s no reason you couldn’t do this to a woman, though getting your hands in the right place might require a bit of negotiation.

Is this a thing that people actually do?

There aren’t any official studies into how popular the rusty trombone is, which is an extremely disappointing reality.

We’re hoping that a university will take notice of this glaring gap in public knowledge and conduct a well funded study as soon as possible.

In the meantime, there are plenty of people on the internet who claim to have experienced the big RT, but that’s not really very much to go on.

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Should I try it?

Do you want to try it? Do you have a willing partner who would also like to try it? If so, there’s your answer. If not, I don’t think your experience of humanity will be diminished by not trying the rusty trombone.

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