Speaker 1: Hey there, it's your girl, k Love and welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of Taboo, Fetish or Kink. Today, we're taking
Speaker 1: you on a wild ride through time and across cultures
Speaker 1: to explore how sexual norms, particularly around oral sex, have
Speaker 1: shifted and evolved. Trust me, you don't want to miss
Speaker 1: this one, all right. Let's kick things off with ancient
Speaker 1: societies spanning from the prehistoric era up to five hundred CE.
Speaker 1: So picture this cave art and venus figurines. Yep, even
Speaker 1: our prehistoric ancestors. We're all about that fertility and sexual expression.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think, but oral sex probably emerged naturally
Speaker 1: during this time, even though direct evidence is pretty scarce.
Speaker 1: Then we move on to ancient and me y are
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Speaker 1: as these folks they had text like the about gods,
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Speaker 1: Next stop is ancient Greece and Rome, where sexual norms
Speaker 1: we're super fluid. I think Sappho's poetry and those raunchy
Speaker 1: pompey frescoes. Oral sex and same sex relations were common
Speaker 1: and totally accepted. Greece had this socially regulated practice called pederisty,
Speaker 1: while Rome tied sexual roles to power dynamics. Being the
Speaker 1: active partner was like, yeah, I'm the boss, while the
Speaker 1: passive role not so much. In India, the Kammasutra wasn't
Speaker 1: just a manual, It was a whole philosophy of pleasure
Speaker 1: and love that normalized a bunch of sexual practices, including
Speaker 1: oral sex. Now let's fast forward to the era of
Speaker 1: big religious influences from five hundred CE to fifteen hundred CE.
Speaker 1: Here comes Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, introducing stricter sexual norms. Christianity,
Speaker 1: for instance, was a zee was all about pro creation
Speaker 1: and often slammed non procreative acts like oral sex as sinful.
Speaker 1: That being said, enforcement was kind of all over the place,
Speaker 1: and secular practices often did their own thing. In the
Speaker 1: Islamic world, those hadiths and some Persian poems hinted at
Speaker 1: sensual pleasure, but modesty and procreation were still the big deals. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in East Asia, especially China, Taoist texts considered sexual practices,
Speaker 1: including oral sex, part of health and spiritual balance. In Japan,
Speaker 1: Shunga art Wow it showed a diverse range of sexual
Speaker 1: acts as totally unnatural. Jumping to the medieval to early
Speaker 1: modern periods. Between fifteen hundred and eighteen hundred, the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church really tightened the screws on sexual norms in Europe.
Speaker 1: Anything outside marital procreative sex labeled as sodomy. But don't
Speaker 1: be fooled, people were still getting down behind closed doors.
Speaker 1: Renaissance art and literature, like Boccaccio's a crutch was to Cameron,
Speaker 1: kept the freak flag flying, showcasing all kinds of sexual diversity.
Speaker 1: Colonization also played a huge role here, with Europeans imposing
Speaker 1: their rigid norms on more permissive indigenous cultures. Some Native
Speaker 1: American tribes, for instance, had these fluid gender roles and
Speaker 1: sexual practices that colonizers tried to squash over. In Asia
Speaker 1: and Africa, local traditions stayed alive despite the growing influence
Speaker 1: of global trade. Moughal, India's art still celebrated eroticism, and
Speaker 1: African sexual customs were all over the map, from extremely
Speaker 1: permissive to highly regulated. Let's roll into the modern era
Speaker 1: from eighteen hundred to the present ah the nineteenth century
Speaker 1: Victorian Europe was pretty much the definition of sexual repression.
Speaker 1: Modesty and heterosexual marriage were the names of the game,
Speaker 1: and oral sex pathologized by emerging medical discourses thanks to
Speaker 1: folks like Freud. Yet underground subcultures and racy literature like
Speaker 1: Fanny Hill show that people were finding ways to keep
Speaker 1: their sexual practices alive. Then we hit the twentieth century
Speaker 1: and boom the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1: Contraception and feminist movements took center stage, normalizing all sorts
Speaker 1: of sexual practices, including oral sex, as part of personal freedom.
Speaker 1: Kinsey's reports were eye openers, documenting widespread non procreative behaviors
Speaker 1: and blowing up taboos left and right. Globally, post colonial
Speaker 1: societies mixed traditional and Western norms. In Japan, for instance,
Speaker 1: modern cultures stayed pretty open about sexuality, while some Middle
Speaker 1: Eastern countries stuck to strict religious codes. Though private practices
Speaker 1: they varied a lot. So what about the late twentieth
Speaker 1: to twenty first century? Globalization? Media and the Internet spread
Speaker 1: all kinds of sexual norms around the world. LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: rights movements made huge strides in accepting diverse sexualities, though
Speaker 1: there's still backlash in more conservative regions. Oral sex it's
Speaker 1: largely normalized today, popping up in media and getting openly discussed.
Speaker 1: The bottom line, what's taboo in one culture might be
Speaker 1: sacred in another. It all reflects power dynamics, religious influences,
Speaker 1: and the ebb and flow of secular movements. That's it
Speaker 1: for today's juicy historical romp through sexual norms and how
Speaker 1: they've evolved, especially when it comes to oral sex. You've
Speaker 1: been listening to Taboo, Fetish or King with Me Girl
Speaker 1: k Love. Don't forget to check the show notes for
Speaker 1: any links or articles we mentioned in today's episode. Catch
Speaker 1: you next time and keep it spicy.