Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. urolagnia, i.e. the act of urinating on one’s partner as part of sexual experimentation; also attrib.

[1830		Owl (NY) 10 July n.p.: The very decent folks who live in Clinton street [...] are respectfully requested to desist from causing golden showers to descend from their attic; it is very unpleasant to be caught in one of them].
1943		T. Williams Letters 111: Only thing I really enjoy is a ‘golden shower’ from a black cloud.
1950		G. Legman in Neurotica Spring 3: Urine-drinking [...] ‘the golden shower’.
1968		K. Brasselle Cannibals 126: ‘May the bird of paradise wee-wee all over his balls’ [...] ‘He likes that, too.’ ‘My God, don’t tell me he’s a “golden shower” boy!’.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 105: Today he’d tried two new things. A golden shower and a tea-room.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 119: The trick [...] offered her an extra twenty if she would give him a golden shower. ‘What is that exactly,’ she asked. [...] ‘You just sit on me the way I show you and . . . urinate.’.
a.1989		Women in Command 16 in Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 78: Mistress Julie of New York is accepting slaves who enjoy S&M, B&D, enemas, foot worship, G/S and related subjects.
1982		P. Bailey Eng. Madam 79: She had a lot of what are known in the trade as Golden Rain clients – blokes who want to be peed on.
1992		B. Gifford Night People 26: He lost control, and sprayed her all over [...] Cutie, still dripping wet from the golden shower, ran out.
2000		S. Maloney Big Ask 281: ‘Very juicy,’ said Farrell. ‘Nothing like a bit of bondage.’ Golden showers were more his preference, I thought.
2006		thelondonpaper 4 Sept. 3: The bovine hooligan urinated all over the hapless Oddie as he spoke live to BBC’s Breakfast programme. He described it as ‘a golden shower too far’.
2008		J. Lansdale Leather Maiden 123: ‘She talked about getting pissed on. Golden shower stuff’.
2008		Sun. Times (S. Afr.) Lifestyle 27 Jan. 10: James [a rentboy] says he does most things: bondage, blowjobs, golden showers.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 46: Pornographic photos [of] girls getting golden showers.

2. (N.Z. prison) the emptying of cell chamberpots.

1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 32: golden shower n. The emptying out of cell chamberpots.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] : golden shower n. the emptying-out of cell chamberpots.