"Stem The Rose"

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Please explain. The phrase has formed a part of my conversational lexicon since I first heard Randy Quaid growl it in Brokeback Mountain.

is it like "packing the fudge"?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Curious, too. I had to look up the quote later: I wasn't sure I had heard him correctly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I was curious, too. What did you find out?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002214.php

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

"Stemming the rose" is a direct literary figure-of-speech indicating homosexual love-making, meaning, in no uncertain terms, "inserting one's penis" (the stem) into "the lover's anus" (the rose). Ergo, "stemming the rose" is a very "flowery" way of stating (as noted in the "Dictionary of Gay Slang") - "engaging in anal intercourse." "The rose" (male anus/sphincter) is analogous to "the cherry" (female clitoris).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Except cherry = hymen, not clitoris!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I'll be damned. That discussion sure put the blocks on me.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Some say love...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd never heard it either! A friend has already started using it with his bf (the phrase, I mean).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "put the blocks on me" - did not match any documents.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

The use of such a phrase being just one of the gajillion things that irritated me about that movie.
For instance, Ennis's wife. If you saw your husband passionately kissing some guy, would you not stride down the stairs and brain him with a frying pan? Or at least demand to know what the fuck is going on here???? And we're supposed to care about this perpetually weepy person? She was even weepy when she was married to Mr. Niceguy.
Off-topic. But we're done with the rose, right?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Not if your husband intimidates you. (remember the 4th of July sequence [my pick for worst scene] and the confrontation that almost happened at the grocery store where Alma works), and if you have no idea what stemming the rose entails (perhaps kissing another man is "sniffing the rose").

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Jakin' the gyll!

I'd say there'd be a wide range of reactions from a wide range of women to the kiss, esp in late '60s Wyoming. And more likely to be muted than if she spied him with a woman.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Me, I'd go the frying pan route.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

me, id go the threesome route

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

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