The Marquis de Sade describes a pegging act in his 1795 book Philosophy in the Bedroom.The first explicit pegging scene is believed to be the 1976 pornographic film The Opening of Misty Beethoven. Long before the term was coined as such, the 1970 film Myra Breckinridge, based on the novel by Gore Vidal, depicted the first known pegging scene on the screen.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture.