WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:07.919 Hey there, it's your girl, k Love and welcome to 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.000 another episode of Taboo, Fetish or Kink. Today, we're taking 3 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.320 you on a wild ride through time and across cultures 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.320 to explore how sexual norms, particularly around oral sex, have 5 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:25.920 shifted and evolved. Trust me, you don't want to miss 6 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:31.079 this one, all right. Let's kick things off with ancient 7 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:37.759 societies spanning from the prehistoric era up to five hundred CE. 8 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:45.880 So picture this cave art and venus figurines. Yep, even 9 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.200 our prehistoric ancestors. We're all about that fertility and sexual expression. 10 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:59.840 It's crazy to think, but oral sex probably emerged naturally 11 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.280 during this time, even though direct evidence is pretty scarce. 12 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:09.840 Then we move on to ancient and me y are 13 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:21.400 show or Nia or and I's get out had stop 14 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.640 as these folks they had text like the about gods, 15 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.680 like about specially got including oral sex. You often t 16 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:46.280 her uh thank festa or yard or shaher who Statia. 17 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.719 Next stop is ancient Greece and Rome, where sexual norms 18 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:59.079 we're super fluid. I think Sappho's poetry and those raunchy 19 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:08.599 pompey frescoes. Oral sex and same sex relations were common 20 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:14.800 and totally accepted. Greece had this socially regulated practice called pederisty, 21 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:18.919 while Rome tied sexual roles to power dynamics. Being the 22 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:24.400 active partner was like, yeah, I'm the boss, while the 23 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:30.400 passive role not so much. In India, the Kammasutra wasn't 24 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.120 just a manual, It was a whole philosophy of pleasure 25 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:40.000 and love that normalized a bunch of sexual practices, including 26 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.120 oral sex. Now let's fast forward to the era of 27 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:49.719 big religious influences from five hundred CE to fifteen hundred CE. 28 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:57.319 Here comes Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, introducing stricter sexual norms. Christianity, 29 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:04.520 for instance, was a zee was all about pro creation 30 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:12.319 and often slammed non procreative acts like oral sex as sinful. 31 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.400 That being said, enforcement was kind of all over the place, 32 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:19.960 and secular practices often did their own thing. In the 33 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:25.599 Islamic world, those hadiths and some Persian poems hinted at 34 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:33.680 sensual pleasure, but modesty and procreation were still the big deals. Meanwhile, 35 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:38.560 in East Asia, especially China, Taoist texts considered sexual practices, 36 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:43.400 including oral sex, part of health and spiritual balance. In Japan, 37 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:51.719 Shunga art Wow it showed a diverse range of sexual 38 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:59.120 acts as totally unnatural. Jumping to the medieval to early 39 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:04.240 modern periods. Between fifteen hundred and eighteen hundred, the Catholic 40 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.159 Church really tightened the screws on sexual norms in Europe. 41 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:14.639 Anything outside marital procreative sex labeled as sodomy. But don't 42 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.959 be fooled, people were still getting down behind closed doors. 43 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:24.920 Renaissance art and literature, like Boccaccio's a crutch was to Cameron, 44 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.360 kept the freak flag flying, showcasing all kinds of sexual diversity. 45 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.800 Colonization also played a huge role here, with Europeans imposing 46 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:40.639 their rigid norms on more permissive indigenous cultures. Some Native 47 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:47.879 American tribes, for instance, had these fluid gender roles and 48 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:54.360 sexual practices that colonizers tried to squash over. In Asia 49 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.199 and Africa, local traditions stayed alive despite the growing influence 50 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:05.240 of global trade. Moughal, India's art still celebrated eroticism, and 51 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.920 African sexual customs were all over the map, from extremely 52 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:18.480 permissive to highly regulated. Let's roll into the modern era 53 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:24.800 from eighteen hundred to the present ah the nineteenth century 54 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.959 Victorian Europe was pretty much the definition of sexual repression. 55 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.800 Modesty and heterosexual marriage were the names of the game, 56 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:43.519 and oral sex pathologized by emerging medical discourses thanks to 57 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:50.639 folks like Freud. Yet underground subcultures and racy literature like 58 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:54.480 Fanny Hill show that people were finding ways to keep 59 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.519 their sexual practices alive. Then we hit the twentieth century 60 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:05.120 and boom the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies. 61 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.639 Contraception and feminist movements took center stage, normalizing all sorts 62 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:17.040 of sexual practices, including oral sex, as part of personal freedom. 63 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:24.560 Kinsey's reports were eye openers, documenting widespread non procreative behaviors 64 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:30.079 and blowing up taboos left and right. Globally, post colonial 65 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:35.959 societies mixed traditional and Western norms. In Japan, for instance, 66 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.920 modern cultures stayed pretty open about sexuality, while some Middle 67 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:45.879 Eastern countries stuck to strict religious codes. Though private practices 68 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:52.639 they varied a lot. So what about the late twentieth 69 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:59.639 to twenty first century? Globalization? Media and the Internet spread 70 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.160 all kinds of sexual norms around the world. LGBTQ plus 71 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:14.279 rights movements made huge strides in accepting diverse sexualities, though 72 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:21.199 there's still backlash in more conservative regions. Oral sex it's 73 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.920 largely normalized today, popping up in media and getting openly discussed. 74 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.399 The bottom line, what's taboo in one culture might be 75 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:40.680 sacred in another. It all reflects power dynamics, religious influences, 76 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:45.920 and the ebb and flow of secular movements. That's it 77 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.360 for today's juicy historical romp through sexual norms and how 78 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:54.759 they've evolved, especially when it comes to oral sex. You've 79 00:07:54.759 --> 00:08:00.399 been listening to Taboo, Fetish or King with Me Girl 80 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.600 k Love. Don't forget to check the show notes for 81 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.120 any links or articles we mentioned in today's episode. Catch 82 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:16.759 you next time and keep it spicy.