Oral Sex

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ID7077767
AuthorsBruce Curtis (0000-0002-0275-7731)
Year2015
Pages1-3
Publication date2015-10-26
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoso014.pub2
OpenAlexW4255723017
ISBN9781405165518
LanguageEN
References cited16

Oral sex is broadly defined as oral‐genital stimulation. Cunnilingus refers to oral‐vaginal stimulation, fellatio to oral‐penile stimulation, and analingus to anal‐lingual stimulation. Across the sweep of sexual practices in human societies both historically and cross‐culturally, oral sex figures in an extremely wide variety of forms, themselves valued in very different ways. The focus here is on oral sex within heterosexual relations, but oral sex plays an important part in homosexual relations. In some historical configurations of sexual practices in South Asia, for instance, the tasting of another man's semen was thought to stimulate the desire for heterosexual intercourse. In another configuration, fellatio was seen as a substitute for heterosexual intercourse, something to be received from a eunuch, but certainly not by a man from his wife. In the west, oral sex was often subject to legal prohibitions against “sodomy,” both hetero‐ and homosexual, and in some states in the United States it remains a criminal offense

Homosexuality · Population · Sexual intercourse · Sociology · Sodomy · Demography · Gender Studies · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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