Derivation: U.S. Navy
slang. An entreaty used by a desperately horny
male sailor to get another
male sailor to engage in clandestine sexual activity for the purpose of mutual release. Based on the theory that when two guys on a ship with no access to females have sex, they are not gay, but just helping out a shipmate.
HT2 Betz: "Dude, if you jack me off, I'll jack you off."
AO2
Griffin: "No, way, man! That's gay!"
HT2 Betz: "We've been at sea for three months, and we won't see Pearl for another three. I'm just saying help a shipmate out. After all, it's only queer if you'
re tied to the pier."
AO2 Griffin: "Yeah, I guess you'
re right. We could go to the chain locker..."