Autofellatio

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Autofellatio: oral sex performed by a man on himself. Most men do not possess sufficient penis length and/or the spine flexibility required to perform this act.

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Photograph of a man performing autofellatio

Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. While few human males are sufficiently well-endowed and/or 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.

Contents

1 History
2 Autofellatio as entheogenic practice
3 In modern culture

3.1 References in fiction

4 See also
5 References and External links

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^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} from the general public due to its taboo nature. Many paintings featuring the act were vandalised in Victorian times^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} for that reason.

Autofellatio as entheogenic practice

Autofellator Glenn Scheper conveys an aspect of autofellatio that is often lost in the spectacle of this ostentatious sexual practice but which nonetheless suggests a connection to the ancient cosmogenical myths involving autofellatio. Scheper discovered autofellatio as a 24 year old and attributes several years of psychotic disturbances to this find. In essence he posits that the practice brings the practitioner into a heightened awareness – a rapture-like state of consciousness – conducive to profound ontological insights. Autofellator Al Eingang explains some of the reason for this attained ability to «tweak» one's orgasm both for extended duration and increased intensity:

"Imagine having someone suck on your cock who knows exactly what you're feeling at every moment; who can adjust every variable instantly to provide you with maximum pleasure. Imagine […] sucking on the cock of a man who knows exactly how hard and fast to push, and when to pull out […] Having that much control means that I can have a variety of kinds of orgasms…" (Al Eingang)

Scheper likens what happens to the phenomenon of infinite regress known in quantum mechanics as a strange loop or Von Neumann's catastrophe of the infinite regress where the mind loses its grip on the subject-object relationship and one finds oneself at once being receiver and giver of fellatio. This could be comparable to an experience of apotheosis which Scheper compares with the surmised initiatory states of consciousness attained by religious icons such as Enoch, Moses, Buddha and Jesus. The literature history is, according to Scheper, replete with esoteric references to this act. He gives for instance the following example from the Old Testament involving Moses:

''And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

''it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. (Exodus 33:21-23)

The exoteric significance of this section becomes very obvious when one sees the rock as Moses' skull; the glory as Moses' phallus, that also being his standing aspect. Scheper points out that for this metaphor (and other that he enumerates) to be recognized it is essential to realize that the classic autofellatio discovery position is inverted, "when body weight flexes one's neck to yield a sudden advantage. Thus upside-down"

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.

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 Michael Jackson, John Holmes, Prince and Gabriele D'Annunzio.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

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.

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 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","Roger Mellie's Ad Break", 2003, Boxtree, ISBN 0752215531 a compilation of Viz fake adverts) about autofellatio, including slogans such as "Learn Yoga and give yourself a blowjob".

In the 2001 movie Saving Silverman actor Jack Black talks about taking yoga to achieve the goal of being able to perform autofellatio.

In the Kevin Smith debut movie "Clerks." (1994), Randal tells Dante a story about his cousin Walter who tried to perform autofellatio but accidentally broke his neck and died trying to do so. Dante later admits that he tried to autofellate himself but couldn't, much to Randal's disgust.

References and External links