Autofellatio

Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. It is physically possible only for men who have sufficient flexibility or penis size or a combination of the two. Autofellatio is a niche in both gay and straight 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, in the Papyrus Bremner-Rhind 28, 20–24, in a document called "Book of Overthrowing Apophis", there is a poem narrating how the sun god Ra had created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by fellating himself and spitting out his own semen onto the ground. In ancient Egyptian texts this act is usually performed by the god Atum, and most texts depict only the spitting of the semen or only the masturbation, but not both things together.

Michel Foucault cites Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as identifying the act of "taking [one's] sex organ into one's [own] 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 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 biologists 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 films 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 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
• Seminophagia
• Sexercises
• Steve Holmes

External links

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