Type of oral sex
"Egyptian rape" redirects here. For the phenomenon of rape in the Arab Republic of Egypt, see
Rape in Egypt
.
Irrumatio
(also known as
irrumation
or by the colloquialism
face-fucking
) is a form of
oral sex
in which someone
thrusts
their
penis
into another person's mouth, in contrast to
fellatio
where the penis is being actively orally excited by a fellator. The difference lies mainly in which party takes the active part. By extension,
irrumatio
can also refer to the sexual technique of thrusting the penis between the thighs of a partner (
intercrural sex
).
[1]
In the ancient Roman sexual vocabulary,
irrumatio
is a form of
oral rape
(
os impurum
), in which a man forces his penis into someone else's mouth, usually a woman's.
[2]
The act of irrumatio with forced
vomiting
is present in some
online pornography
, partly because of its shock effect and as a form of humiliation and degradation.
[3]
Etymology and history
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The
English
nouns
irrumatio
and
irrumation
, and the verb
irrumate
, come from the
Latin
irrum?re
, meaning
to force receptive male oral sex
.
[4]
[5]
J. L. Butrica, in his review of R. W. Hooper's edition of
The Priapus Poems
, a
corpus
of poems known as
Priapeia
in Latin, states that "some
Roman
sexual practices, like
irrumatio
, lack simple English equivalents".
[6]
There is some conjecture among linguists, as yet unresolved, that
irr?m?tio
may be connected with the Latin word
r?men, r?minis
, the throat and gullet, whence 'ruminate', to chew the cud, therefore meaning 'insertion into the throat'. Others
[7]
connect it with
r?ma
or
r?mis
, an obsolete word for a teat, hence it would mean "giving milk", "giving to suck". (Compare the word
fell?
, which literally meant "suck (milk)" before it acquired its sexual sense.)
As the
quotation
from Butrica suggests and an article by W. A. Krenkel shows,
irrumatio
was a distinct sexual practice in ancient Rome.
[8]
[
clarification needed
]
[9]
J. N. Adams states that "it was a standard joke to speak of
irrumatio
as a means of silencing someone".
[10]
Oral sex
was considered to be an act of defilement: the mouth had a particularly defined role as the organ of oratory, as in
Greece
, to participate in the central public sphere, where discursive powers were of great importance. Thus, to penetrate the mouth could be taken to be a sign of massive power differential within a relationship.
Erotic art from Pompeii
depicts
irrumatio
along with
fututio
,
fellatio and cunnilingus
, and
pedicatio
or anal sex.
[11]
The extant wall paintings depicting explicit sex often appear to be in bathhouses and brothels, and oral sex was something usually practiced with
prostitutes
because of their lowly status.
Craig A. Williams argues that
irrumatio
was regarded as a degrading act, even more so than anal rape.
[12]
S. Tarkovsky states that, despite being popular, it was thought to be a hostile act, "taken directly from the Greek, whereby the Greek men would have to force the fellatio by violence".
[11]
Furthermore, as A. Richlin has shown in an article in the
Journal of the History of Sexuality
, it was also accepted as "oral
rape
", a
punitive
act against
homosexuality
.
[13]
Catullus
threatens two friends who have insulted him with both
irrumatio
and
pedicatio
in his
Carmen
16
, although the use could also mean "go to hell," rather than being a literal threat.
[14]
In modern English, the term "fellatio" has expanded to incorporate
irrumatio
, and the latter has fallen out of widespread use.
[15]
Likewise,
irrumatio
might today be called "forced fellatio" or "oral rape". Oftentimes in modern English, especially in a non-rape context, the term "face fucking" is used.
[16]
Another synonym for
irrumatio
is
Egyptian rape
or simply
Egyptian
; this goes back to the time of the
Crusades
when
Mamluks
were alleged to force their Christian captives to do this.
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]
Ethnology
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"Peruvian erotic pottery of the
Mochica cultures
represent a form of fellatio in the vases showing oragenital acts. See the vases illustrated in color in Dr. Rafael Larco-Hoyle’s
Checan
(Love!), published in both French and English versions by Editions Nagel in Geneva, 1965, plates 30?33 and 133?135. The action should really be considered
irrumation
".
[18]
See also
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Notes
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- ^
"irrumatio in Sex-Lexis"
. Retrieved
2009-07-07
.
- ^
Amy Richlin, "The Meaning of irrumare in Catullus and Martial", Classical Philology 76.1 (1981) 40?46.
- ^
"
"Emetophilia"
"
. Retrieved
2020-07-07
.
- ^
"Whitaker's Words: irrumatio"
. Archived from
the original
on 2022-09-30
. Retrieved
2018-05-06
.
- ^
Richlin, A. (1981). "Richlin, A. 1981. "The Meaning of Irrumare in Catullus and Martial".
Classical Philology
76 (1): 40?46. Link to preview available from the WWW".
Classical Philology
.
76
(1): 40?46.
doi
:
10.1086/366597
.
JSTOR
269544
.
S2CID
162094918
.
- ^
James L. Butrica (February 2000).
"Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.02.23"
.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
. Retrieved
2009-07-07
.
- ^
Adams (1982),
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
, p. 126.
- ^
Krenkel, W. A. (1980).
"Fellatio and Irrumatio" in W. Bernard and C. Reitz (eds.).
Naturalia non turpia
(this work is one of a series of articles written by Krenkel about sexuality in the Roman Empire.)
. Zurich & New York: Ildesheim. pp. 205?232.
- ^
Krenkel, Werner.
"Masturbation in der Antike." "Pueri meritorii." "Fellatio und Irrumatio." "Tonguing." and "Tribaden."
. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universitat Rostock. pp. 28 (1979): 159?89, 29 (1980): 77?88, 30 (1981): 37?54, 38 (1989): 45?58.
- ^
Adams, J. N. (1982).
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
. Baltimore. pp. 126?127.
- ^
a
b
Tarkovsky, S.
"Roman Sex ?C Hot Sex from the Frescos in Pompeii"
. Archived from
the original
on December 20, 2008
. Retrieved
2009-07-07
.
- ^
Williams, C. A. (1999).
Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity
. Oxford:
Oxford University Press
. p. 331.
- ^
Richlin, A. (1993). "Preview of "Not before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law against Love between Men"
".
Journal of the History of Sexuality
.
3
(4): 523?573.
JSTOR
3704392
.
- ^
Micaela Wakil Janan (18 January 1994).
When the Lamp Is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus
. SIU Press. p. 45.
ISBN
978-0-8093-1765-3
. Retrieved
26 May
2016
.
- ^
"
"Fellatio" in Sex-Lewis"
. Retrieved
2009-07-07
.
- ^
"Face fucking"
.
Define Dictionary Meaning
. 2021-04-08
. Retrieved
2022-12-29
.
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Edwardes, Allen; Masters, Robert E. L.
The cradle of erotica
, New York: Julian Press, 1963.
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G., Legman (1969).
Oragenitalism: Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation
. The Julian Press and devious quantivies. p. 243.
Bibliography
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