Oragenitalism:

Oral sexuality is primarily expressed as FELLATIO (oral stimulation of the penis and surrounding areas) and CUNNILINGUS (oral stimulation of the clitoris and surrounding areas). While each practice predates history and can be almost as stimulating as sexual union, many taboos and myths (both positive and negative) cloud the practices.

TECHNIQUES will not be discussed or described here:
references are provided. The major concerns here are balanced health and health recovery. Before even considering how to do either of these practices, it is wise to consider the benefits and cautions of including it in one's lifestyle.

POTENTIAL BENEFITS.

1. variety vs boredom;
2. demonstration of love (when voluntary);
3. displayed in erotic art of many cultures;
4. can enhance trust, awareness, sensitivity;
5. may be used to lengthen intimacy period;
6. intense and multiple orgasms (esp. women);
7. birth control, family planning.

CAUTIONS TO CONSIDER.

1. you are exposed to every partner the other person has been with;
2. demonstration of disrespect and control (when involuntary);
3. demands good health and excellent hygiene;
4. often objectionable during menstruation;
5. highly present in single gender peer communication;
6. highly promoted by pornography (disrespectful portrayals);
7. is the most common sexually abusive practice;
8. tends to lead to infertility within couples;
9. can abbreviate intimate arousal period for the male;
10. may obsessively replace sexual union (coitus);
11. is illegal in some countries and states;
12. is sacrilegious in some religions;
13. can be used for male rape (seldom);
14. carries tremendous social shame.

JUST HOW DANGEROUS CAN ORAL SEX BE?

In the 1990's individuals in supposedly "advanced" cultures were still being educated to have such negative self-esteem and body image that they have insufficient concern for the hygiene of their genital areas. No "wild" animal shows such little lack of self-respect as do many humans, both male and female. Even though once it is pointed out it becomes "obvious" --- there are still many adults who do not take the time or show the consideration to cleanse their genital areas before engaging in sexual activity. Even as a regular one or more times per day hygienic routine, it is ignored. Biological toxicity develops in the genital areas because of many common factors:

1. perspiration from excessive environmental temperatures;
2. lymphatic discharge of body wastes and toxins;
3. genital stimulation secretions;
4. chronic illness fungus or bacteria;
5. menstrual or urine residual.

TIGHT and RESTRICTIVE CLOTHING which prevent adequate air circulation to the genital region inhibit the normal removal of moisture exuded by the surrounding skin. Most synthetic clothing materials encourage this buildup. Panties, briefs, slacks, girdles, shorts and trousers which are spacious or loose fitting in the crotch region are immensely more healthy than those which fit tightly. The cautions offered here also apply to bras. At least one author has cited tight fitting bras as contributing to the occurrence of breast disease because of their restricting influence on the lymph system.

COTTON INNER GARMENTS are always advantageous because of their ability to absorb moisture rather than just act as a barrier to it. There are many women who develop chemical hypersensitivities to bra materials which are not cotton and subsequently experience patches of discoloration, dryness, irritation, and inflammation on their breasts. The moisture barrier influence of synthetic materials and silk panties is often cited as a contributing factor for the development and continuance of female genital fungus diseases. Both fungus and bacteria thrive in dark, warm, moist environments.

POPULAR MODERN CLOTHING STYLES have provided just such an environment in the human genital regions for decades. The result of this moisture containment and bacterial proliferation for men is most easily observed in the wear of the male trouser crotch region. Any trouser lacking a silk crotch lining will tend to wear through in half the time of those having such a lining. Essentially, without the lining, the disadvantageous-to-health environment is extended to the trouser fabric and toxins, moisture, bacteria and fungus ... plus the pressure afforded by the adjacent scrotum --- weaken, metabolize and thin the material until little is left. The silk acts as a moisture shield to prevent this. The trousers are saved at the added risk to the genitals ... unless, a loose fit AND cotton underwear are also used.

SKIN PERSPIRATION is a natural and healthy way to secrete toxins when the body temperature is elevated either by a hot external environment, or, by a hot internal environment. Any form of exercise which raises the heart rate, metabolic rate, and respiration rate is likely to produce a hot internal environment. At other times, we are often exposed to "constructed" environments which conflict with outdoors environments. This includes air-conditioned or over-heated offices, homes, public and private transport, and various industrial environments. The more we are required, or choose, to alternate between the two without substantial modifications in our outerwear, the more we are likely to experience periods of sweating and chills.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SHOCK of a sweat chill can distract the immune system enough for some persons so as to provide an opportunity for a cold, flu, or other virus to successfully compromise one's health. If you don't want such results, don't encourage the condition. Multiple layers of clothing, the use of down-filled outerwear, cotton undergarments, and the use of "wick" wear, such as Patagonia "Capilene" are positive options. Wick-type undergarments draw the perspiration from the skin, without chilling, and evaporates it to the outer air. So now you have little reason to encase your body, and especially your genital areas in warm, moist, fungus-producing and bacteria enhancing unhealthy atmospheres.

MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD and MALIGNED, sexual secretions have justified actual physical mutilation and torture. Particularly obvious in the male, yet also present in the female, the brain influences the unconscious secretion of "stimulated" lubrication secretions from the frenum of the penis and the clitoral areas. While there are few absolute statements that can be made, the following have been observed.

1. Absent libido = no spontaneously produced secretions;
2. High libido tends to produce higher amounts of secretions;
3. Regular sexual activity tends to decrease "surplus" secretions;
4. Aged natural lubricating sexual secretions = a waste product;
5. Accumulated body waste products = a growth medium for fungus;
6. Moist, warm, dark body wastes = a optimum growth environment;
7. Regular washing & clean clothing inhibit fungal-bacteria growth.

NEGATIVE ATTITUDES abound in North American popular culture about male and female sexual secretions.

FIRST, aged and contaminated secretions ARE a health hazard.

SECONDLY, common contaminating influences can be treated.

THIRDLY, such secretions are normal and beneficial and can be maintained as healthy for more satisfying sexual interaction.

An article, How Smegma Serves the Penis can help you understand much more about one of the male sexual lubricants.

A second article: Newborns: Care of the Uncircumcised Penis provides a further understanding of how the penis of an infant is best cared for by parents.

HYGIENE --- How an adult male regards and cares for his penis is directly related to the sexual attitudes, practices, and mentoring of parents and peers. Parents have the greatest responsibility and potentially the greatest impact on the attitudes of their children for they are passive mentors. Without saying a word, it is their look, tone of voice, responses and actions which continually mentor the child.

MUCH UNINTENTIONAL yet real interpersonal abuse arises from an inadequate lack of hygiene arising from a negative self-image and negative penis image. Much negative cultural thinking, about the general health of both male and female genitalia is a result of poor health and misunderstanding. If men are pigs, and women are !??!, it is the responsibility of their parents and role models. Pigs, like most animals, prefer to be clean and in clean surroundings until human intervention prevents such.

MANY DISEASES can be transmitted by sexual contact and unsavory experiences can further traumatize an individual making them more susceptible to acquiring hypersensitivities. It doesn't have to be that way. As an incentive to taking control of your sexuality responsibility, here is a short list of diseases which are easily sexually transferable:

1. Candidiasis (fungus);
2. herpes simplex 1 (virus);
3. Gonorrhea (bacteria);
4. genital warts, Papilloma (virus);
5. HIV / AIDS (virus);
6. herpes simplex 2 (virus);
7. pubic lice, crabs (parasite);
8. Chlamydia, NSU, NGU (bacteria);
9. amebiasis (parasite);
10. hepatitis B (virus);
11. syphilis (virus).

NOTE: see Sexual Resources for more info on the above.

THE REALITY is that as many as 10% of teenagers and over 30% of adults acquire these illnesses from intimate contact with a carrier or infected person. It has been recorded that 50% of North American adults have at least one of the above illnesses. Sexual intercourse or even sexual contact is NOT necessary for transmission. Poor health, poor hygiene, and hand contact can be enough in some cases.

KNOW YOUR PARTNER.
No balanced, healthy human will knowingly infect someone they love with any of the above. That leaves ignorance, jealousy, spite, and hatred as likely reasons for knowingly spreading one's infection to another. None of these conditions, except ignorance, arise in an intimate relationship which is based on commitment and trust. You are empowered by these pages, so you can no longer declare ignorance. Trust and commitment are your responsibility.

COMMITMENT does not mean miscellaneous sexual encounters by either of the committed persons with others who do not share the commitment. Done secretly, such actions are a clear indication of a lack of truthfulness, an expectation of intolerance, an inability to express self-control and self-management ... a lack of trust.

TRUST MUST ALWAYS AND CONTINUOUSLY BE EARNED.
Giving trust without reason is nothing more than disrespectful to yourself and to the other person: it suggests that trust is unimportant because it is free. Trust built on a foundation of self-awareness, empathy, forgiveness (when sincerely requested), honesty, humility, and caring ... is trust you can depend on and which is tested, exercised and rewarded on a daily basis. It is your ONLY protection against acquiring disease through intimacy.

NOTE for healthy oragenital intimacy.

• regular personal hygiene;
• a committed personal relationship;
• awareness, honesty, trust;
• thorough medical testing of each;
• knowledge of dangers - benefits;
• respect and acknowledgement for each.