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Autofellatio

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, contortionism or yoga may make it possible for some. Kinsey states that less than 1% of men can successfully suck or lick their own penises.

Autofellatio - In modern culture

Photograph of a man performing autofellatio

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.

Autofellatio - 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. [1]

The translator David Lorton has speculated about one Egyptian poem that includes an image he argues might best be interpreted to assert Atum (Ra) created the gods Shu and Tefnut in an act of autofellatio, though the far more common interpretation makes the act in question more conventional masturbation.[2]

Kevin Smith later developed a similar theme in his debut film Clerks. [3], 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.

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.

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.

In a classic example of urban myth, 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.

Interestingly, autofellatio has an ancient history. Archaeologists have found hieroglyphs and ancient paintings featuring men sucking their own penises. Academic David Lorton says that many ancient texts refer to autofellatio within the religious mythology of Egypt. The sun god Ra is said to have created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by sucking himself and spitting out his own semen onto the ground. 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.

See also

• Autocunnilingus, the analogue for a female

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