Talk:Cockblock

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Cockblock redirect.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

No consensus, 9 May 2012, see discussion.
Keep, 2 October 2008, see discussion.

Older deletion discussions:
Keep, 7 August 2008, see discussion. Delete, 18 August 2005, see discussion.

Psychology Low‑importance

	Psychology portal This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Psychology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PsychologyWikipedia:WikiProject PsychologyTemplate:WikiProject Psychologypsychology articles
Low	This redirect has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sexology and sexuality Low‑importance

	Human sexuality portal This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Sexology and sexuality, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of human sexuality on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Sexology and sexualityWikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexualityTemplate:WikiProject Sexology and sexualitySexology and sexuality articles
Low	This redirect has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sociology Low‑importance

	Society portal This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Sociology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sociology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SociologyWikipedia:WikiProject SociologyTemplate:WikiProject Sociologysociology articles
Low	This redirect has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Usefulness of cockblock?

Is a cockblock sometimes regarded as having performed a useful service for the female by keeping sketchy guys away? Aldrich Hanssen (talk) 01:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite

To address the concerns raised when this article was listed for deletion, I rewrote the entire article with new sources I found via a little Googling. Some of the previous text was accurate, but not adequately sourced, and hopefully that text can be re-added in the future with better sources. --SecondSight (talk) 09:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usage

I believe this term is well-known outside the seduction community as well. They were probably not even the first to invent it. However, the article should not really be primarily about the term but about the concept anyway. Aldrich Hanssen (talk) 02:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard people a few times characterizing maneuvers in the U.S. Congress as "cockblocking" - deliberate obstruction to prevent someone from achieving results that they might get credit for.83.254.151.33 (talk) 18:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sports terms

A Cockblock can also be defined as making a stop with with your Cock. An example is when playing soccer another player takes a shot and the goalie makes a stop with his cock, making it a cock block^[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerd2010 (talk • contribs) 23:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why this hasn't been added as a section to the cockblock wiki page. It's a fairly common soccer and hockey term. I'm not sure if it is used in lacrosse or women's field hockey though.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.133.44 (talk) 01:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ first hand experience

Romantic connection block?

At least one of the references only applied to an (attempted) block of a romantic connection, not of a sexual connection. If that was intended, it should be in the lead, and the article should be removed from Wikipedia:WikiProject Seduction, in favor of a {{see also|Concepts in the seduction community#Cockblock}}. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:53, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

romantic cockblock?! what are you trying to say? Anyway, there is no doubt over the fact cockblock comes under the coverage of WikiProject Seduction. Mathmo ^Talk 11:03, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cockblocking when the term proper isn't used

I heard a news story on the radio yesterday and thought of this article and a possible addition to this article, but I thought I'd run it by everyone here first. The story was about a chiropractor who is facing sex abuse charges after improperly contacting the genital areas of several young female patients. The accused party had a hearing before the Iowa Board of Chiropractors this week, and one of the conditions that will allow him to continue practicing includes having a non-relative adult female chaperone in the room whenever he treats a female patient. (See link here.) I presume the reason behind this stipulation is to discourage improper contact, whether sex was the objective or not. The whole point of this post, then, is this: Would it be proper to include this type of "cockblocking" in this article in the context of "preventive measure," when the term proper isn't used? (Here, "adult female chaperone" is in essence the term.) Thanks! [[Briguy52748 (talk) 14:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)]][reply]

Save us from conciseness and clarity

The first sentence was:

To cockblock is to prevent another person, intentionally or inadvertently, from having sexual intercourse with a third party.

Moonshark rewrote it:

A cockblock refers to a person who intentionally or accidentally interferes or prevents another person, intentionally or inadvertently, from having sexual intercourse with a third party.

The second sentence remains unchanged:

A cockblock or cockblocker is a person who engages in such obstruction or intervention.

This new language makes unclear whether the term can be applied to the action as well as to the agent.

Does A cockblock refers to... (first sentence) mean something different from A cockblock is... (second sentence)? If so, what? If not, why two sentences saying essentially the same thing?

Does intentionally or accidentally (before the verb) mean something different from intentionally or inadvertently (after the verb)?

In short, how is this new first sentence an improvement? —Tamfang (talk) 23:46, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I've compared the result of Moonshark's multiple edits to the previous state of the article, I'm reverting it all, keeping only one added sentence. Moonshark removed rather a lot of content. —Tamfang (talk) 00:08, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any real sources?

Whether it has the tag or not, the current article still violates WP:NOTDIC (excuse the pun). The recent AfD never identified a basis for notability. What we need is some legitimate source that covers cockblocking directly and in detail, or we don't really have enough material to summarize to make an article (please see WP:WHYN). The closest things we have so far are two articles from a student newspaper: an editorial and something like a humor piece. There are a couple cites of genuine research articles that mention cockblocking in relation to something else; they might be good to keep if the topic has thorough coverage somewhere, but they don't meet WP:GNG. Really, they should source material that goes into an article about what those papers are actually about. I don't really want to be the "moment ruiner" for the folks who are all hot and bothered to keep this article, but please find a real source, OK? I just deleted three bogus sources, apparently added to give the article false legitimacy. I took a quick look at Google Books. Almost everything, it seems, just provides a definition, maybe with a bit of humor. However, I found one source that looks promising: Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard. Unfortunately, two pages are missing from Google's version. Two pages all about whatever there is to say about cockblocking beyond its definition might actually provide enough information to make a real encyclopedia article, though probably a short and unsatisfying one. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 01:12, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This term applies equally if not more to women

I'm not sure why it's not mentioned in this article, but the term nowadays applies equally if not more to women. In fact, I've thus far almost exclusively only heard or seen it referring to women protecting their friends or sabotaging a hook-up for other reasons (jealousy, whatever): [1]. Softlavender (talk) 03:15, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Cockblock. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100610175746/http://www.english.uga.edu/cocoon/english/dawgspeak/dawgspeak~?term=c to http://www.english.uga.edu/cocoon/english/dawgspeak/dawgspeak~?term=c

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:01, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why not make this a wikitionary redirect?

This page is just a definition. Wikitionary does that better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.33.133 (talk) 06:47, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of word Cockblock

Can we please open a new category devoted to history and origin of this popular word. In 7th century this word originated in Bosnia after King's wife held a speech in the Bosnian Church and jokingly called her husband 'Kok Blok' which in Bosnian means "a man who shields his privates." 50.64.136.84 (talk) 23:12, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There being no comment, I am implementing this now. BD2412 T 19:43, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] rst hand experience

[1]