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Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. Although this act is often thought of skeptically as an urban legend, it is indeed physically possible for people who are exceptionally flexible, well endowed or a combination of the two. Autofellatio is a niche in gay and traditional pornography. References to autofellatio in popular culture are common.

History

Egyptologist David Lorton says that many ancient texts refer to autofellatio within the religion of Egypt, both in the realm of the gods and among the followers performing religious rituals. According to Lorton, the sun god Ra was said to have created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by fellating himself and spitting out his own semen onto the ground.

Michel Foucault cites Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as identifying the act of "taking sex organ into one's mouth" as one of three ways to commit "relations with oneself." Artemidorus thought that dreams of this "unnatural" act portended the death of one's children, loss of one's mistresses, or extreme poverty.

Physical aspects

Few men possess sufficient flexibility and/or penis length to safely perform the necessary frontbend. However, increased flexibility achieved via gravity-assisted positions, and physical training such as gymnastics, contortion, or yoga may make it possible for some. American biologist Craig Bartle and Alfred Charles Kinsey reported that fewer than 1% of males can successfully orally contact their own penis and that only 2 or 3 men in a thousand could perform a full autofellatio. Previously, autofellatio was considered by behavioristic science a problem rather than as a variety in sexual practice.

Cultural references

While fairly few pornographic movies involve autofellatio, Ron Jeremy is notable in part for his 1970s examples on film.

The 2006 film Shortbus shows one of the characters fellating himself.

In Brian W. Aldiss' semi-autobiographical novel The Hand-Reared Boy (1970), he describes group masturbation practices at a British boys' boarding school. One boy with an especially large penis is capable of fellating himself, a fact which the narrator, Horatio Stubbs, verifies.

Comedian Bill Hicks elaborated an oft-quoted riff on the subject of fellatio:

A woman one night yelled out, "Yeah, you ever try it?" I said, yeah. Almost broke my back.

Kevin Smith later developed a similar theme ("He broke his neck trying to suck his own dick") in his debut film Clerks. Writer/director Larry David, in his 1998 film Sour Grapes, used autofellatio as a recurring plot device with several mentions and muted shots of a lead actor fellating himself (back trouble allowing) throughout the movie.

In the Wayans Brothers film Scary Movie 2, David Cross plays a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair who at one point refuses oral sex from a young female character, claiming he can do it himself, adding to an on-going gag of refusing help from others to accomplish various tasks.

On the popular Saturday Night Live show Will Ferrell plays a character who joins a yoga class with the sole purpose to be able to fellate himself which he is shown to eventually be able to do.

In the movie Saving Silverman, Steve Zahn's character Wayne Lefessier attempts to autofellatio.

In the popular comedy song Like a Boss by The Lonely Island, Andy Samberg references autofellatio in the line "suck my own dick (like a boss)"

See also

• Autoeroticism
• Cole Youngblood
• Ior Bock
• List of sex positions
• Ricky Martinez
• Scott O'Hara
• Sexercises
• Shu (Egyptian deity)
• Steve Holmes
• The Master, a recurring character from The Venture Bros.

References

1. Savage, Dan. Savage Love, page 242 (Plume 1998).
2. David Lorton (1995). "Autofellatio and Ontology". Retrieved 2006-04-15.
3. "Autofellatio". SexInfo101.com. Retrieved 2006-10-15. Academic David Lorton says that many ancient texts refer to autofellatio within the religious mythology of Egypt. He also notes that autofellatio was performed during rituals as a result of the sun god Ra's. . .
4. Foucault, Michel (1984). The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self, vol.3, p. 24. Translation by Robert Hurley. Pantheon Books, New York.
5. William Guy, Michael H. P. Finn (1954). "A Review of Autofellatio: A Psychological Study of Two New Cases". Psychoanalytic Review (41): 354–358.
6. Cavenar JO Jr, Spaulding JG, Butts NT. "Autofellatio: a power and dependency conflict.", Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. November 1977; p. 356-360.
7. Nardwuar (1996-12-27). "Nardwuar vs Ron Jeremy". Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Inc. Retrieved 2006-12-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
8. http://www.kapelovitz.com/selfsuck.htm
10. It's Just a Ride Transcribed by Elspeth Fahey
11. Kevin Smith. Clerks (txt) (Script). Retrieved 2009-04-27.

External links

• Interview with an Autofellator
• Auto-Fellatio: If You Want Something Done Right, Do It Yourself - An editorial

• Sex positions
• Masturbation
• Oral eroticism