The term soupeur is a word denoting several sexual practices whose main characteristic attraction to other male secretions.
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First meaning: bread soaked in urine
This specific meaning refers to individuals who take pleasure in consuming food soaked in the urine of others, in particular bread abandoned and later retrieved at public urinals. This practice was popular in Paris and Marseille up until the 1960s and 1970s. There were numerous contemporary references in popular culture.
There existed a practical alternative where a public urinal is stopped in order to wait for it to fill. Then a person would enter it and submerge his penis into the urine of previous users. This was alternatively called dipping.
Second Definition: In brothels
The term alternatively describes the act of individuals visiting brothels to consume the semen left on the prostitutes by the customers. This act is also described as "do dinette."
In his autobiography One two two, former prostitute Fabienne Jamet evokes this practice: "Back when I ruled the 122, I had a soupeur who took me thirty to forty currency each visit."
Sometimes prostitutes "fake" their performance and offered only sperm ersatz by brushing the pubic hair of a white base mixture of egg, urine and a few drops of Javel.
Mentions in popular culture
These practices both extreme and often adorned innocuous descriptions slums of Paris in the literature of the mid-twentieth century:
"Some drunks, prostitutes, and even a soupeur" Joann Sfar, Pascin 2005. "I was twelve. [...] Martial, my boyfriend of Clos Street, had teamed up with a guy who lived Orteaux Street, just above the urinal where diners began to dip their piece of bread in piss. They put the whole loaves coming and resume the gentle evening. We had spotted them, we were naive, we did not realize they ate the bread swollen with urine. "Nan Aurousseau, District carrion, 2012 Stock p. 100.