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, , p. 49.Fernando Liggio, Trattato moderno di psicopatologia della sessualità, Biblioteca Universitaria, 2010, , p. 65 . 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, n. p. .Eva Christina, The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary, New York: Perigee, 2011, , , 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, , pp. 11–16, p. 16.Drawing, Art of Love: Nearly 100 Sex Positions and Wealth of Illustrated Material from Foreplay to Anatomy, e-book, Mobilereference.com, 2007, , n.p.
Documentation While possible for a small number of women,Psychiatric Research Report: 6-9, American Psychiatric Association, 1957, 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, , p. 145. and 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, , 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, , n.p.
Fiction In "Besorgung", one of his , 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, p. 10 .W. Daniel Wilson, Goethe Männer Knaben: Ansichten zur "Homosexualität", Berlin: Insel, 2012, , p. 500 (pdf p. 8) . 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, , p. 253.
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