autocunnilingus
{{short description|Rare act of oral stimulation of one's own vulva}}
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Autocunnilingus is a form of masturbation involving the oral stimulation of one's own vulva."Autocunnilingus", The Complete Dictionary of Sexology, expanded ed., ed. Robert T. Francoeur et al., New York: Continuum, 1995, {{ISBN|9780826406729}}, p. 49.Fernando Liggio, Trattato moderno di psicopatologia della sessualità, Biblioteca Universitaria, 2010, {{ISBN|9783453602236}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TIPt9oWsrtkC&pg=PA65 p. 65] {{in lang|it}}. Performing cunnilingus on oneself requires an unusually high degree of flexibility such as that of contortionists or double-jointed people."Schlangenfrau gesucht" - "Sought: snake-woman", Mario Günther-Bruns, Sexgott: 1.000 Tabubrüche, Diana 60223, Munich: Heyne, 2013, , [https://books.google.com/books?id=K-i2CuvUwNMC&pg=PT10 n. p.] {{in lang|de}}.Eva Christina, The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary, New York: Perigee, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-399-53694-6}}, {{OCLC|706018293}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SFcWmcGLXJ4C&pg=PT52 n. p.]Jesse Bering, "So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The Contorted History of Autofellatio", in Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human, New York: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2012, {{ISBN|9780374532925}}, pp. 11–16, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BO2j5b2hs8IC&pg=PA291 p. 16].Drawing, Art of Love: Nearly 100 Sex Positions and Wealth of Illustrated Material from Foreplay to Anatomy, e-book, Mobilereference.com, 2007, {{ISBN|9781605011172}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q384wPT-KFEC&pg=PT1 n.p.]
Documentation
While possible for a small number of women,Psychiatric Research Report: 6-9, American Psychiatric Association, 1957, [https://books.google.com/books?id=L-sSAQAAMAAJ&q=%E2%80%9CAutocunnilingus%E2%80%9D p. 34]. autocunnilingus has not been thoroughly studied or well-documented.William Guy and Michael H. P. Finn, "A Review of Autofellatio: A Psychological Study of Two New Cases", Psychoanalytic Review 41 (1954) 354–58. It has, however, been reported as a self-destructive fantasy,Fear of Being Fat: The Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia, ed. C. Philip Wilson with Charles C. Hogan and Ira L. Mintz, Classical psychoanalysis and its applications, New York: Aronson, 1983, {{ISBN|9780876684801}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3ZHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA145 p. 145]. and other occurrences of the act have been reported in macaques and chimpanzees.David J. Linden, The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel so Good, New York: Viking-Penguin, 2011, {{ISBN|9780670022588}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=42GY_PXexMMC&pg=PT103 n.p.]: the example that follows involves water from a garden hose rather than the mouth.Todd K. Shackelford, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions, Cambridge University Press, 2022, {{ISBN|978-1-10895-243-9}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CPJ4EAAAQBAJ&dq=%E2%80%9Cautofellatio%E2%80%9D+%E2%80%9Cautocunnilingus%E2%80%9D&pg=PT305 n.p.]
= Fiction =
In "Besorgung", one of his {{Interlanguage link multi|Venetian Epigrams|de|3=Venezianische Epigramme|italic=yes}}, Goethe imagined Bettina becoming sufficiently limber to perform autocunnilingus and do without men.Ludger Lütkehaus, "'O Wollust, o Hölle': Onanie, Phantasie und Literatur", Die Zeit, 15 November 1991, [http://www.zeit.de/1991/47/o-wollust-o-hoelle/seite-10 p. 10] {{in lang|de}}.W. Daniel Wilson, Goethe Männer Knaben: Ansichten zur "Homosexualität", Berlin: Insel, 2012, {{ISBN|9783458175421}}, p. 500 (pdf [http://www.onleihe.de/static/content/suhrkamp/20120815/978-3-458-79321-2/v978-3-458-79321-2.pdf p. 8]) {{in lang|de}}. Camille Paglia compares the resulting image to William Blake's "engravings of solipsistically contorted figures".Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, 1990, repr. New York: Vintage, 1991, {{ISBN|9780679735793}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fhuC6eHWnqQC&pg=PA252 p. 253].
See also
{{portal|Human sexuality}}
References
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