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Template:Linkimage Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. While few human males are both sufficiently well-endowed and flexible enough to perform the frontbend required, increased flexibility achieved via physical training such as gymnastics, contortion or yoga may make it possible for some. Kinsey states that fewer than 1% of men can successfully suck or lick their own penises.
History
Autofellatio has an ancient history. Archaeologists have found hieroglyphs and ancient paintings featuring men fellating their own penises. Academic David Lorton says that many ancient texts refer to autofellatio within the religion of Egypt. The sun god Ra is said to have created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by fellating himself and spitting out his own semen onto the ground, though the far more common interpretation makes the act in question more conventional masturbation. Autofellatio was apparently performed during religious rituals in honour of this.
Another controversial theory, still debated by egyptologists, suggests that Horus, the son of the god Osiris, performed autofellatio every night because ingesting his own semen kept the stars in their places, and thus order was maintained. While autofellatio may have been a normal part of Egyptian life, the information has been largely suppressed from the general public due to its taboo nature. Many paintings featuring the act were vandalised in Victorian times for that reason.
In modern culture
While fairly few pornographic movies involve autofellatio, Ron Jeremy is remembered in part for his 1970s examples on film.
Finnish New Age cult leader Ior Bock claims that saunasolmu (meaning 'sauna knot' in English) is an ancient Finnish tradition of autofellatio.
The act also featured in an April 18, 2000 Saturday Night Live skit featuring host Tobey Maguire as a yoga instructor whose student, played by Will Ferrell, distracts the entire class by managing, after years of trying, to fellate himself.
In a classic example of urban legend, it was once reported and spread around the internet that singer Marilyn Manson had a number of ribs removed to allow him to perform autofellatio. This turned out to be false. Similar rumors have circulated about John Holmes, Prince and Gabriele D'Annunzio.
References in fiction
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.
In his semi-autobiographical novel The Hand-Reared Boy (1970), the writer Brian 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.
Kevin Smith later developed a similar theme in his debut film Clerks., in which the main character, Dante Hicks, is goaded by his comedic foil, Randall Graves, into admitting that he once attempted the act but could not reach, a setup that results in a later payoff at the end of the film when a coroner observing a corpse being moved into an ambulance relates a story about the strangest death she ever encountered, which was a man who broke his neck while autofellating.
Writer/director Larry David, in his 1998 film Sour Grapes, included a few mentions of the topic, with muted shots of a lead actor fellating himself occasionally throughout the movie.
The Viz comics have featured fake advertisements (also published in "Roger Mellie's Ad Break", a compilation of Viz fake adverts) about autofellatio, including slogans such as "Learn Yoga and give yourself a blowjob".
See also
- Autocunnilingus, the analogue for a female
References and External links
- David Lorton (1995). "Autofellatio and Ontology". Retrieved 2006-04-15.
- "It's just a ride". November 1995. Retrieved 2006-04-15.
- "Roger Mellie's Ad Break", 2003, Boxtree, ISBN 0752215531