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The '''[[w:Campaign for "santorum" neologism|campaign for "santorum" neologism]]''' was initiated by American columnist and gay rights activist [[Dan Savage]] in 2003 to associate the surname of then-Senator [[Rick Santorum]] with a sexual act. He created a website called "Spreading Santorum" to promote the definition, which became a prominent search result for the senator's name on several search engines.

== Quotes ==
*the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
**{{cite book
    | first = Paul Ryan 
    | last = Brewer
    | pages = 82-86
    | year = 2007
    | title = Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights
    | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
    | isbn = 9780742562110}}

*In the 'for what it's worth' department, the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is called santorum. ... Safety Warning #6: Be particularly cautious where this santorum goes. As previously noted, you don't want to get any fecal matter in the vaginal area. Bad safety risk.
**{{cite book
    | last = Rubel
    | first = Robert J.
    | title = Squirms, Screams and Squirts: Going from Great Sex to Extraordinary Sex
    | pages = 64-65
    | year = 2007
    | publisher = Nazca Plains Corp
    | isbn = 1887895647
    | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=EamkToorhTUC&pg=PA65}}

===Dan Savage===
[[File:Dan Savage Provided.jpg|thumb|right|"I take particular issue with politicians who compare loving, stable same-sex relationships to ‘man on dog’ sex, as Santorum has done, or who would ban same-sex marriage and adoptions by same-sex couples, as Santorum has promised to do if he gets elected president." — [[Dan Savage]]]]

*After telling a reporter that he likes homosexuals just fine -- provided we refrain from engaging in homosexual acts -- Mr. Santorum came out in support of laws against sodomy.
**{{Cite news 
    | last = Savage
    | first = Dan
    | author-link = Dan Savage
    | title = G.O.P. Hypocrisy
    | newspaper = [[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]]
    | date = April 25, 2003
    | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE5D7163DF936A15757C0A9659C8B63
    | postscript = <!--None-->
    | publisher = [[w:The New York Times Company|The New York Times Company]]
   
    | page = 31; Column: 2}}

*Striking down an insulting, discriminatory, unconstitutional law will not, as Santorum fears, open the doors to incest, adultery, bigamy, and bestiality. Straight people blew those doors off their hinges long, long ago.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=14193
    | title = Savage Love Family Ties
    | first = Dan
    | last = Savage
    | authorlink = Dan Savage
    | work = [[w:The Stranger|The Stranger]]
    | date = May 8, 2003
    | publisher = www.thestranger.com}}

*There's no better way to memorialize the Santorum scandal than by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=14267
    | title = Savage Love: Bill, Ashton, Rick
    | first = Dan
    | last = Savage
    | authorlink = Dan Savage
    | date = May 15, 2003
    | work = [[w:The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] 
    | publisher = www.thestranger.com
    | accessdate = December 19, 2006}}

*There was no name for it. It wasn't competing with anything. It's unwelcome. If you're doing [anal sex] right, it's not gonna happen, and if it happens, it's a bit of a killjoy, which is what it would be if the actual senator strolled into the room.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38419699.html
    | title = Savage Politics
    | first = Liz
    | last = Spikol 
    | publisher = www.philadelphiaweekly.com
    | work = [[w:Philadelphia Weekly|Philadelphia Weekly]]
    | date = October 4, 2006
    | accessdate = December 19, 2006}}

*While Santorum would have been defeated even without a filthy, lowercase definition of his last name floating around out there, having a name that can barely be mentioned in polite company anymore didn't help.... We helped to make Rick Santorum into a national laughingstock — with an invaluable assist from Rick Santorum, of course.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=105207
    | title = Make a Joyful Noise
    | first = Dan
    | last = Savage
    | work = [[w:The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]]
    | date = November 16, 2006
    | accessdate = March 12, 2007
    | publisher = www.thestranger.com}}

*I do have issues — I have lots of issues — but I take particular issue with politicians who compare loving, stable same-sex relationships to ‘man on dog’ sex, as Santorum has done, or who would ban same-sex marriage and adoptions by same-sex couples, as Santorum has promised to do if he gets elected president.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50052.html
    | publisher = www.politico.com
    | work = [[w:Politico|Politico]]
    | title = Santorum's Google tormentor reloads
    | date = February 23, 2011
    | first = Andy
    | last = Barr
    | accessdate = May 11, 2011}}

===Rick Santorum===
*If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.
**{{cite news
    | first = Sean
    | last = Loughlin
    | url = http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/22/santorum.gays/
    | title = Santorum under fire for comments on homosexuality
    | work = [[w:CNN|CNN]]
    | publisher = [[w:Time Warner|Time Warner]]
    | date = April 22, 2003
    | accessdate = October 2, 2007}}

*It’s one guy. You know who it is. The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate. It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_84/-203455-1.html
    | accessdate = May 9, 2011
    | title = Santorum Talks About Longtime Google Problem
    | work = [[w:Roll Call|Roll Call]]
    | last = Peoples
    | first = Steve
    | date = February 16, 2011}}

*I don’t see it as a problem at all.
**{{cite news
    | last = Moody
    | first = Chris
    | work = [[w:The Daily Caller|The Daily Caller]]
    | title = Santorum says he has no plans to fix his ‘Google problem’
    | date = April 28, 2011
    | url = http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/28/santorum-says-he-has-no-plans-to-fix-his-google-problem/
    | accessdate = May 9, 2011}}

*It's a free country and people can do and say what they want to say.
**{{cite news
    | work = [[w:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]
    | date = May 12, 2011
    | accessdate = May 12, 2011
    | first = Brian
    | last = O'Neill
    | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11132/1145964-155-0.stm
    | publisher = www.post-gazette.com
    | title = Santorum occupies big stage as underdog}}

==Use in fiction==
*She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her ass, and throws it under the cot.
**{{cite book
    | first = Jack R.
    | last = Dunn
    | year = 2005
    | title = Hard
    | page = 134
    | url = http://www.scribd.com/doc/16188669/Hard}}

*Then, one of them broke ranks and rammed his blood-lubed fist straight up my ass and twisted hard, pulled it out and licked the santorum clean.
**{{cite book
    | contribution = A Horrible Night of Research and Erudite Bloodletting
    | first = Richard J.
    | last = Polney|editor-first=Christopher|editor-last=Pierce
    | year = 2008
    | title = Men on the Edge: Dangerous Erotica
    | page = 38
    | publisher = STARbooks Press
    | isbn = 978-1934187289
    | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=iFUn8oRyZzgC&pg=PA38}}

*Any residents not burned alive in the fires or drowned in the flood will be made to drink a mixture of bodily fluids typically deposited in on the streets during Mardi Gras until death. The mixture should consist of (but is not limited to) sweat, snot, urine, saliva, tears, vomit, sexual fluids, and feces and santourm.
**{{cite book
    | title = Hate Starve Curse
    | year = 2008
    | publisher = Broken Science Press
    | page = 30
    | first = Austen
    | last = James
    | isbn = 978-148235028
    | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=d86h3zMsD1AC&pg=PA30}}
==Use in music==
*I'll fuck you till my dick's dry / Squirt santorum in my eye
**{{cite book|    | year = 2011    | date = April 1, 2011    | chapter = Booty Sex    | author = Icemilk    | title = Sofa King Delicious   | url = http://www.icemilkmusic.com/lyrics.html    | asin = B00510PZO0|accessdate=January 23, 2012}}, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzPj_FwDy8 video].

==About==
*This year the strongest contender was ''santorum''.... We dismissed one potential problem &mdash; that newspapers wouldn't print the term if it won &mdash; on the grounds that we shouldn't censor ourselves. And indeed... ''santorum'' did win, but many newspapers simply skipped this category in their coverage. So much for academic freedom.
**{{cite news
    | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2112150/
    | title = Linguists Gone Wild! Why "wardrobe malfunction" wasn't the word of the year. 
    | first = Jesse
    | last = Sheidlower
    | authorlink = w:Jesse Sheidlower
    | work = [[w:Slate (magazine)|Slate]]
    | publisher = Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC; www.slate.com; Section: Dispatches
    | date = January 11, 2005
    || accessdate = December 19, 2006}}

*Possibly the longest-lasting pop-culture reference to Santorum is that of sex columnist Dan Savage (carried here in Philadelphia Weekly), who started what's become a popular campaign to use the senator's surname to describe a byproduct of anal sex.
**{{cite news
    | last = Gross
    | first = Dan
    | work = [[w:Philadelphia Daily News|Philadelphia Daily News]]
    | title = Tony S. likes 'Sanatorium'
    | date = April 18, 2006
    | page = 37}}

*Savage was persistent, and his efforts met with success &mdash; among other honors, the [[American Dialect Society]] named it their Most Outrageous Word of the Year. Since 2004, I'd wanted to use SANTORUM as soon as possible, and was happy to have the opportunity here. I think crosswords should embrace interesting neologisms, warts and all.
**{{cite book
    | first = Ben
    | last = Tausig
    | title = Gonzo Crosswords
    | year = 2007
    | page = 89
    | publisher = Sterling
    | isbn = 1402742789}}

*Long before Savage successfully campaigned to turn anti-gay Senator Rick Santorum's last name into a hilariously insulting noun, Landers laid the groundwork for such subversive political activism.
**{{cite news
    | last = Sullivan
    | first = Catey
    | work = [[w:The Antioch Review|The Antioch Review]]
    | date = June 5, 2008
    | title = No question: 'Answer lady' is utterly perfect
    | publisher = Pioneer Press}}

*Like Savage's methods or not, they were successful and arguably had an impact on Santorum's ultimate defeat. ... If Santorum actually thinks he has a shot at president, his opponents will surely dredge this bit of dirty silliness from his past and use it to make him appear like a joke candidate.
**{{cite news
    | title = Can we get some Santorum in here?
    | date = February 6, 2011
    | work = [[w:Columbus Ledger-Enquirer|Columbus Ledger-Enquirer]]
    | location = [[w:Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]}}

*Santorum also has a Google problem. His position on gay rights prompted liberal gay rights activist and columnist Dan Savage to redefine 'santorum' as an explicit aspect of gay sex, and if you Google his last name the result is the first to show up.
**{{cite news
    | work = [[w:CBS News|CBS News]]
    | publisher = [[w:CBS|CBS]]
    | last = Montopoli
    | first = Brian
    | title = What are the 2012 GOP candidates running from?
    | date = May 11, 2011
    | accessdate = May 11, 2011
    | url = http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20061623-503544.html}}

==See also==
*[[American Dialect Society]]
*[[Homosexuality]]
*[[LGBT]]
*[[Politics]]
*[[Queer]]
*[[Sexuality]]

==Further reading==

*{{Cite news
    | last = Mencimer
    | first = Stephanie 
    | title = Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem
    | newspaper = [[w:Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]
    | date = September 2010
    | url = http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/rick-santorum-google-problem-dan-savage 
    | accessdate = May 11, 2011
    | publisher = motherjones.com}}
*{{cite news
    | url = http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_84/-203455-1.html
    | accessdate = May 9, 2011
    | title = Santorum Talks About Longtime Google Problem
    | work = [[w:Roll Call|Roll Call]]
    | last = Peoples
    | first = Steve
    | date = February 16, 2011}}

==External links==
{{wiktionary|santorum}}
{{wikipedia|Campaign for "santorum" neologism}}
{{commons|category:Santorum neologism}}
{{wikinews|Category:Campaign for "santorum" neologism}}
* [[w:American Dialect Society|American Dialect Society]]'s [http://www.americandialect.org/2004_Words_of_the_Year_Final_Vote_.pdf Word of the Year, Most Outrageous category (2004)]
*[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum January 3, 2012 Urban Word of the Day], [[w:Urban Dictionary|Urban Dictionary]]
*[http://spreadingsantorum.com/ Spreading Santorum], official website created by {{w|Dan Savage}} to document the spread of the phenomenon
*[http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/sodomy/santorum/ Santorum], background at ''{{w|Rotten.com}}''
*[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/santorum Santorum], analysis of the phenomenon at {{w|Know Your Meme}} by ''{{w|Rocketboom}}''


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