What is a Lemon Party? Origin and Meaning

What Is Lemon Party?

The keyphrase \”lemon\” is a term used to describe an old man. In this context, Lemon Party is talking about a shock website which featured video footage of three elderly men having an intimate time together. Don\’t be in a rush to tell your friends to google the word \”lemon party,” as they might find this disturbing video of three naked, elderly men engaging in intimate sexually activities.

What Is the Origin of Lemon Party?

The energetically earthy and sexually explicit website wasn’t the first LemonParty prank. That belongs to a joke, if briefly registered, political party in Canada in the late 1980s who promoted a “bitter Canada.” References to the party resurfaced in obscure memes in 2018.

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Afterwards comes the internet, with its Wild West of shock websites having click-bait titles totrick individuals into viewing graphic and pornographic images— more like a bait-and-switch that rickrolled netizens. This Unholy Trinity of the Internet included Goatse, Tubgirl, and LemonParty, registered as www.lemonparty.org in 2002. (you may visit at your own risk. Definitely NSFW.)

Individuals would tell their friends to google \”lemonparty” with their computers only to find a picture of three naked, elderly men having sex while Jimmy Soul’s 1963 song “If You Wanna Be Happy” played in the background.

Lemon Party was Urban Dictionary official in 2004. In 2007, actors Michael Cera and Jonah Hill used Lemon Party as a medium to advertise their film Superbad. Popular culture has since widely referenced Lemon Party, including The Simpsons, 30 Rock, American Dad, and The Daily Show, as a way to describe a sexual act involving gay elderly individuals having sex. Indeed, some folks have criticized Lemon Party for stigmatizing elderly and gay sex. In 2014, Dixon Cox (clearly a pseudonym) published an erotic novel, My First Lemon Party.

Lemon Party went up for sale in 2013. You could own a piece of internet history for just … $450,000! In 2018, electronic musician Sacha Robotti filed a lawsuit against his former managers, alleging that they redirected his website to Lemon Party.

What are the examples of lemon party?

Lemonparty is the Mona Lisa of the Internet.

@tlemco, September, 2013

Remember, if you don\’t agree with any of the candidates on the ballot today, you can always vote Lemon Party!

@Collectiphile, November, 2016

Who uses lemon party?

Lemon Party was popularly used only as a prank, especially during election times.

It’s also hailed as a classic internet prank, knowledge of which can earn someone old-school internet cred.

Back In the 2010s, people have used Lemon Party to refer to sexual encounters (especially group sex) between older men. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, more figuratively, have been referred to as a Lemon Party for their age and affinity (according to dictionary )