69 (sex position)
Left: a heterosexual couple, Center: a lesbian couple, Right: a gay couple
Sixty-nine or 69 is a
The name is a translation of the original French, soixante-neuf,[5] which is also sometimes borrowed directly into English. The concept is that both partners can experience sexual stimulation and oral sensation simultaneously, but this can also distract those who try to focus solely on their own pleasure from giving oral sex well. The position can also be awkward for partners who are not similar in height.[6]
Variations
Variations of the 69 position include mutual
.History
The term sixty-nine or soixante-neuf for mutual simultaneous oral-genital stimulation is an English translation of the euphemistic French term, "soixante-neuf."
"The earliest unequivocal representation of the sixty-nine appears to be that on an oil-lamp preserved in the Munich Museum (Deutsches Museum), and first reproduced in Dr. Gaston Vorberg's ... portfolio, Die Erotik der Antiken in Kleinkunst und Keramik (Munich, 1921) plate 58, showing the woman lying on top of the man. Dr. Vorberg gives this ... to be of the period of the Roman Caesars ... . However, another oil-lamp of the same kind, showing the sixty-nine almost identically ... is more recently reproduced as a full-color plate, in Prof. Jean Marcadé's Eros Kalos (English-language edition, Geneva : Nagel, 1965), facing page 58, in ... lamps preserved in the Heracleion Museum in Greece."[8]
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The Kama Sutra mentions this sex position, albeit by a different name: "When a man and woman lie down in an inverted order, i.e. with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on [mouth] congress, it is called the 'congress of a crow'."[10]
Internet meme
In reference to the sex position, "69" has become an internet meme, where users will respond to any occurrence of the number with the word "nice" and draw specific attention to it.[citation needed] This means to sarcastically imply that the reference to the sex position was intentional. Because of its association with the sex position and resulting meme, "69" has become known as "the sex number" in these communities,[11] similar to the number 420, which is known as "the weed number." [citation needed]
See also
Notes
- ISBN 1-56975-305-9.
- ISBN 90-420-0433-9, p.214
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4200-4308-2.
- ISBN 0-415-05893-7, p.484
- ^ a b "Soixante-neuf definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- ISBN 0-205-79029-1.
- ^ Legman 1969, p. 289
- ^ Legman 1969, p. 290
- ^ Legman 1969, p. 301
- ^ "History of India, Kamasutra Sexual Orientation Chapter 9". Indohistory. Archived from the original on 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
- ^ Feldman, Brian (2016-06-09). "Why 69 Is the Internet's Coolest Number (Sex)". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
References
- The Julian Press Inc.
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