Daddy (slang)

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Daddy is a slang term that refers to a sexually attractive older man or a man who is sexually involved with a younger partner.[1][2][3]

(1920’s - current day)

Daddy is to mean one's boyfriend, especially an older man or a sugar daddy. Beginning in the 1920s, the term was often heard in blues music and African-American Vernacular English or “Black Folk Talk” or “Talking Ghetto”.

History

Predecessors

According to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the earliest use of "daddy" in a non-paternal context was in 1681, in reference to what sex workers called their procurers or older male customers.[4][5] This term is also used across races, with its origins becoming most recognized in the 1920s.

In America, the term was used in blues music and African-American Vernacular English to mean one's boyfriend, especially an older man or a sugar daddy.

The term is used in a romantic context in

Aileen Stanley's blues song,

"I Wonder Where My Sweet, Sweet Daddy's Gone."[6]


Daddy’s usage is also heard in 1922 songs


"How Can I Be Your 'Sweet Mama' When You're 'Daddy' to Someone Else?"[4][7] by Lavinia Turner

"My Man Rocks Me"[8][5]by Trixie Smith goes a little like this,

”My man rocks me, with one steady roll [...] I said now, Daddy, ain’t we got fun..”[8][5]

A shirt reading "I Love Daddy Bears", pictured at the Oslo pride parade, 2015

In gay culture

A “Leather Daddy” or group of them is pictured and together they show us a set of leather chaps, a leather apron, and other jackets, harnesses, cuffs, and gear alike. Outfits like these are seen at BDSM events worldwide like the Folsom Street Fair, where in 2012 this photo was captured. Their outfits resemble WW2 military gear, and include leather hats, gloves, and boots.

In Gay Culture and BDSM, a "Dad/Son or “Man/Boy” relationship can share similarities with a dynamic of dominance and submission.[9]

New York claimed in 2017 that the gay term evolved from leather subculture, which began in the 1940s.[10]


In the 1970s, the "Leather Daddy" archetype

(which has sadomasochistic associations) was proliferated in such media as the

Drummer magazine (launched in 1975); 1976 to 1979 gay pornographic films Working Man Trilogy; and

BDSM novels by Larry Townsend.[11][10]

Braidon Schaufert has claimed that the term was further normalized through to Game Grumps' 2017 visual novel game, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, which centered "queer fathers in a romance game" and gained a significant online fandom.[12]

Gender

In 2000, Andrew Schopp[13] claimed that the daddy archetype,

"Challenge[s] dominant ideologies of masculinity by appropriating the icons of masculinity and male authority, (IE. jocks, leather, motorcycles, uniforms) transporting them into the realm of gay male sexual experience."[14]

In 2018, Braidon Schaufert[15] claimed that,

“By creating the term 'daddy',’Queer communities have separated the specific Gender Performance of fatherhood from the actual act of raising children.’”.[12]

In 2022, Transgender Studies Quarterly claimed that a Daddy/boy dynamic between trans people

"Can be read as gender labor; affective and intersubjective work that produces gender."[16][17]

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References

  1. ^ Kirkland, Justin (2018-06-15). "Here's an Outrageously Comprehensive Guide to the Term 'Daddy'". Esquire. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  2. ^ Mahale, Aniruddha (2018-01-07). "The Guysexual's Urban Dictionary for Gay Slang". Firstpost. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16.
  3. ^ Borge, Jonathan (2017-10-23). "Why People Are Calling Hot Guys Daddy". InStyle. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  4. ^ a b Farhi, Paul (January 4, 2005). "Conception of a Question: Who's Your Daddy?". Washington Post.
  5. ^ a b c Karen. "The Deal with Daddy". Acelinguist.com. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  6. ^ ""I Wonder Where My Sweet Sweet Daddy's Gone" Aileen Stanley (1920) T. A. Hammed & Ray H. Stark". 22 January 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-14 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "How Can I Be Your "Sweet Mama" When You Are "Daddy" to Somebody Else? - Lavinia Turner". December 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-14 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ a b "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) - Trixie Smith and the Jazz Masters_(Released October 1922)". 10 January 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-14 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Weinberg, Thomas S. (1995). S and M : Studies in dominance and submission. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-978-X. OCLC 478487523.
  10. ^ a b Albo, Mike (2013-06-14). "Rise of the 'Daddies': A New (and Sexy) Gay Niche". The Cut. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  11. ^ "Larry Townsend Books List". Ranker. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  12. ^ a b Schaufert, Braidon (December 2018). "Daddy's Play: Subversion and Normativity in Dream Daddy's Queer World". Game Studies. 18 (3). ISSN 1604-7982.
  13. ^ Schopp, Andrew (2000-04-15). "(De)Constructing Daddy: The Absent father, revisionist masculinity and/in queer cultural representations. Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 9(3), 15-39". disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. 9 (1). doi:10.13023/disclosure.09.03. ISSN 1055-6133.
  14. ^ Schopp, Andrew (2000-04-15). "(De)Constructing Daddy: The Absent Father, Revisionist Masculinity and/in Queer Cultural Representations". disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. 9 (1). doi:10.13023/disclosure.09.03. ISSN 1055-6133.
  15. ^ Schaufert, Braidon (2024-12-31), "4. Virtual Museum Tours. Queer Nostalgic Pasts and Utopic Futures in Canadian Nightlife Memories", Digital Memory Agents in Canada, University of Alberta Press, pp. 75–100, ISBN 978-1-77212-786-7, retrieved 2026-02-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  16. ^ Cassius Adair; Aren Aizura (February 1, 2022). ""The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]"; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other". Transgender Studies Quarterly.
  17. ^ Cameron Awkward-Rich; Hil Malatino (February 1, 2022). "Meanwhile, t4t". Transgender Studies Quarterly.
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