What Is Pegging?
Pegging describes penetrative anal sex where a woman wears a strap-on harness and dildo to penetrate a male partner, typically framed in porn around power dynamics, prostate stimulation, or a broader femdom/role-reversal theme. It sits at the intersection of strap-on and anal content but is treated as its own tag because of that specific gender pairing and dynamic, distinguishing it from lesbian strap-on scenes or male-dominant anal scenes. Scenes range from gentle, intimacy-focused pegging to hard, dominance-themed sessions, so the category covers a wider emotional range than the single word might suggest.
Where the Word Comes From
This is one of the rare porn terms with a genuinely documented origin: the word 'pegging' was coined in 2001 through Dan Savage's syndicated sex advice column Savage Love, after Savage ran a reader poll to name the act, which had no widely used English term at the time. The winning entry stuck, and 'pegging' moved from advice-column shorthand into mainstream slang and eventually into adult-industry categorization over the following decade, as strap-on and anal content already existed but lacked this specific label, giving both fans and producers a single word to search and tag by.
Terminology You'll See
Common terms include strap-on and harness (the equipment involved), power bottom (a receiving partner who's still assertive during the scene), prostate massage or milking (framing pegging around male prostate stimulation), and femdom, which pegging content frequently overlaps with even when the scene isn't explicitly dominance-themed. You'll also see 'switch' content, where partners take turns in both roles, along with 'first time' or 'pegging tutorial' framed videos aimed at viewers curious about trying it themselves rather than just watching.
Why It's Grown in Popularity
Pegging's rise in mainstream visibility — it's been referenced on network TV comedies and covered in mainstream sex-advice media — has fed a steady increase in searches and dedicated content, partly because it offers straight-identifying men a framed, culturally legible way to explore anal receptivity, and partly because it appeals to viewers interested in role-reversal and female-led dynamics more broadly. That mainstream normalization is part of why dedicated pegging studios and clip lines have kept expanding rather than staying a small subsection of general femdom content.