Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. Cunnilingus refers to oral sex performed on a woman and fellatio refers to oral sex performed on a man. Analingus refers to oral stimulation of a person’s anus.
People may engage in oral sex as part of foreplay before intercourse, or during or following intercourse. It may also be performed for its own sake.
Utilities
Oral sex is practiced in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. In heterosexual relationships, oral sex can be a method of contraception and may be chosen as an alternative to intercourse for this reason. Oral sexual activities are notsexually transmitted diseases (STDs), although some forms of STD are believed to be less easily spread in this way. effective methods of preventing
A report issued in September 2005 by the National Center for Health Statistics was the basis of an article in the September 26, 2005 issue of Time magazine. The report comes from the results of a computer-administered survey of over 12,000 Americans between the ages of 15 and 44, and states that over half the teenagers questioned have had oral sex.
While some headlines have interpreted this as evidence that oral sex among teenagers is “on the rise,” this was the first comprehensive study of its kind to examine the matter.
As with mutual masturbation and other forms of outercourse many people do not consider oral sex to be “sex” in the same way as penetrative intercourse and regard it as “third base.” Thus, for many people, oral sex can be seen as one way of experiencing sexual pleasure before losing one’s virginity.
Variants
Facesitting is a form of oral sex in which the receiver sits on the giver’s face and pushes into it with his or her genitals. Oral sex can be performed by both partners at the same time in the so-called “sixty-nine” position.
Spitting and/or swallowing of the ejaculatory fluids may cause different sexual stimulations. Also, eye contact, during fellatio or cunnilingus, may be very stimulating and more pleasurable because it acknowledges that a real person is performing oral sex, not a machine or sex toy. Autofellatio is a possible but rare variant; autocunnilingus may also be possible for women with extremely flexible spines.
