What are oldest known written or visual description of cunnilingus and fellatio?
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What are oldest known written or visual description of cunnilingus and fellatio? I'm curious to know what are the first recorded mentions or depictions of both male and female oral sex. In my feminist, Nordic social democrat heart of hearts I hope that the earliest reference is to cunnilingus, though I suspect that it's the other way around. As a bonus I'd like to know what the oldest references are in English.
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(And before anyone says "Eponysterical!" my handle comes from a circumstance of auto-fellatio by a sea otter which I myself witnessed.)
ottereroticist
How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman's hands. Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. --Song of Solomon (in the Bible) 7:1-2 I can assure you that "navel" and "waist" in this translation are oblique references to what lies between her "graceful legs." It may not be a direct reference to cunnilingus, but what else does one do with blended wine but drink it?
Pater Aletheias
I have seen fellatio depicted on Greek red-figure pottery - I believe in the MFA collection in Boston, on the bottom of a krater or lip cup - although the only reference I could dig up online was http://www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/rape_harris.shtml. Red-figure pottery was pretty well over and done by 360 BC. Here is an execrable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions which is nonetheless well-sourced and might point you towards some better primary sources.
ikkyu2
Well, you've got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii#Suburban_Baths may not be the earliest, but it might be early enough to at least give your feminist, Nordic social democrat heart a warm glow. See also http://www.unrv.com/book-review/roman-sex.php.
flug
I'm assuming that you know this quote to be eponysterical, but Catullus wrote "Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo" (sadly, my only translation is as coy as my only latin dictionary - if I remember correctly, "Pedicabo" is anal penetration and "irrumbo" is fellatio) sometime between 84 and 54 BC. No women involved, of course. Also, not that old a reference.
bonecrusher
"question to be eponysterical", I meant.
bonecrusher
The very last paragraph in the article beagle linked to may be of interest: Are human beings the only mammals who practice fellatio? There are certain male chimpanzees who lick their female mates, but that of course is called cunnilingus, and it seems as much an act of hygiene and play as it does an expression of innate sexual pleasure. It's certainly not an act in and of itself. While animals have an incredibly rich and complex sexual life, we humans are unique. As far as fellatio is concerned, at least as a sexual act unto itself, we human beings are all alone in the animal kingdom.
gauchodaspampas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs Chapter 4 Verse 16 "Awake, O north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, Let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden And eat its choice fruits!" (971-931 B.C.)
brautigan
I should add that there are plenty of people who disagree with me, but no one has yet explained what it could mean that the princess' bellybutton has wine in it. The scholars I trust see this as clearly sexual, and in the larger context, I think their case prevails.
Pater Aletheias
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