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..."