soaking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of soak

plural soakings

1. countableuncountableImmersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

   "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".

   1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Joe the Hotel Boy, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014

2. countableuncountableThe practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.

   That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.

   2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 240

   2 more examples

   Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.

   2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, Duke University Press, →ISBN

   This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of "soaking," which means a man sticks his penis in a vagina but doesn't move it around, therefore it somehow doesn't count as sex. Gimme a break.)

   2021, Rachel Allyn, The Pleasure Is All Yours: Reclaim Your Body’s Bliss and Reignite Your Passion for Life, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 226

comparative more soaking · superlative most soaking

1. Extremely wet; saturated.

   I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.

   1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 5, in Jane Eyre, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014

2. Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.