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Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. People sometimes hear stories about autofellatio, or read accounts about it, but still doubt whether it is actually possible. This maneuver is indeed physically possible, and numerous photographs of this activity are in the public domain.

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 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.

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 depicts one of the characters fellating himself.

In his semi-autobiographical novel The Hand-Reared Boy (1970), the writer Brian W. Aldiss 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.

The topic has also been used as the basis for comedy. 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, saw fit to throw in a few mentions of the topic, also taking it one step further with muted shots of a lead actor fellating himself occasionally (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.

In the movie Saving Silverman, the character Wayne Lefessier, played by Steve Zahn, attempts to practice autofellatio.

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.

References

1. Savage, Dan. Savage Love, page 242 (Plume 1998).
2. Wikimedia Commons, Category:Autofellatio.
3. David Lorton (1995). "Autofellatio and Ontology". Retrieved 2006-04-15.
4. "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. . .
5. Foucault, Michel (1984). The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self, p. 24. Translation by Robert Hurley. Pantheon Books, New York.
6. 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)
7. http://www.kapelovitz.com/selfsuck.htm
8. It's Just a Ride Transcribed by Elspeth Fahey
9. Kevin Smith. Clerks (txt) (Script). Retrieved 2009-04-27.
10. William Guy, Michael H. P. Finn (1954). "A Review of Autofellatio: A Psychological Study of Two New Cases". Psychoanalytic Review (41): 354–358.
11. Cavenar JO Jr, Spaulding JG, Butts NT. "Autofellatio: a power and dependency conflict.", Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. November 1977; p. 356-360.

External links

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

• Masturbation
• Oral eroticism
• Sex positions