Oral sex involves sexually stimulating your partner’s genitals with your lips and/or tongue to stimulate his/her genitals. Like penetrative sex, it aims to pleasure your partner, but without having intercourse. It is an essential part of foreplay before intercourse, to arouse your partner enough and get him/her in the mood for sex. For women, it is especially important to ensure that penetrative sex isn’t painful for them. It isn’t solely for heterosexual couples. Partners of the same sex or mixed-sex relationships can also give and receive pleasure from their partner through oral sex.
Here’s a fun read on oral sex slang, various types of oral sex, some facts, and common myths. So, let’s get started.
6 Slang Terms For Oral Sex
- Blow job
- Eating someone out
- Giving head
- Going down
- Rimming
- 69
Meanings Of Different Types Of Oral Sex
Oral sex is an umbrella term used for all the different types of its kind. Let’s dig deep (no pun intended 😜) into the various kinds of oral sex:
1. Fellatio
Here, the penis is stimulated with the lips, tongue, or teeth. It generally involves licking or sucking motion, but may also include the use of teeth or throat.
2. Cunnilingus
This involves the stimulation of the vagina or clitoris, located at the junction of the inner lips, with the mouth. This includes liking or sucking around the lining of the vulva or around it.
3. Anilingus
This refers to the stimulation of the anus with the lips or mouth.
6 Juicy Facts About Oral Sex
- Oral sex can be given by both men and women.
- While men orgasm through penetrative as well as oral sex, women achieve orgasm only through oral sex. This is because the clitoris gets stimulated only during oral sex as all the nerve endings are situated along the lining of the vulva and clitoris. Penetrative sex usually does nothing to stimulate a woman.
- There is no right or wrong way of oral sex because the rhythm, motion, and pressure that stimulates a woman are not applicable to all women. So, the trick is for your partner and you to experiment with various types of oral sex and see what works best in stimulating you.
- Women cannot get pregnant from oral sex, although they can still get STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).
- It is advisable that you use dental dams or condoms while stimulating your partner’s penis, to prevent STDs.
- Make sure to wash your mouth after oral sex with water or mouthwash. You can also wash the outside of your mouth with a bar of gentle soap and water.
Busting 3 Common Myths About Oral Sex
Myth 1: Oral sex isn’t sex.
Reality: It definitely is. Oral sex is often wrongly seen as an activity solely for pleasure – an activity that involves a lower risk. Because there is no scope for getting pregnant and also enables vagina owners to protect their virginity.
Sex is far more than sexual intercourse and foreplay is an essential and integral part of sex. Hence, oral sex is also an indispensable part of sex, allowing people to experience sexual pleasure without the involvement of penetrative sex.
Myth 2: Oral sex can lead to pregnancy.
Reality: The answer is an emphatic “no”. Only penetrative sex can get a vagina owner pregnant and there is absolutely no way by which oral sex can get you pregnant. A woman conceives when a man’s sperm travels to the egg released by the uterus while she is ovulating and fertilises it. And this cannot happen in the absence of penetrative sex.
Myth 3: There are no risks involved with oral sex.
Reality: there are no pregnancy risks involved with oral sex. But that does not imply that there’s no risk involved at all. For instance, there’s the risk of being susceptible to Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), if you have oral sex with a condom or other birth control methods like dental dams. Although the risk of getting infected with STDs is significantly low when you have oral sex as compared to penetrative sex, it does not eliminate all risks. Some STDs that are passed through oral sex are herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, and HIV.
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