Conclusion
You have just read five case histories in which oral sex played a predominant or prominent role. In each instance it is interesting to note that oral sex has somehow been used as a stopgap measure. While the actual acts of fellatio and cunnilingus were enjoyable in themselves, they were employed mainly because the persons involved had reasons for avoiding the more usual genital-to-genital relationship.
The two young girls, Linda and June, who tried to "work their way through college" by fellating "customers" used oral sex only because they wished to avoid disease and because oral sex was faster and less exhausting. That they enjoyed fellating men is not a point here. What it is, is that the girls found oral sex more convenient.
In Chapter Two, Sue had an obsession with the male Negro. Her psychological problem has already been discussed in detail. We can only add that in her case, too, fellatio was more convenient.
Even more than that, it was "necessary" for her to function at all.
In Chapter Three, Tom's initiation involved the most extreme involvement with cunnilingus. And as was pointed out in the chapter, we do only what we want to do. Tom could not have been forced to perform these acts if he had not wanted to perform them.
In Chapter Four, the young college professor found that oral sex was the only way he could possibly enjoy the extramarital sex he needed. If he limited himself to oral sex, he found, his mind was at peace and he had no worries. None, that is, except those that he brought on himself. The point is, however, that if he had his choice, oral sex would have merely been a part of the whole, not its entirety.
And lastly, in Chapter Five, we found how one young couple adjusted to their individual sexual needs. Again oral sex served as a substitute. A satisfying one, but nevertheless a substitute.
According to authorities in the field of sexology, the sex life of the human begins to organize itself long before the human is conscious of the functions of the sex organs. Dr. Freud designated this organization of the sexual life in which the genital zones have not yet assumed the dominating role as the "pregenital phase." One of the first of such pregenital sexual organizations is the oral.
In the development of the infant, the mouth is the most important part of the body and it is the first part of the body the child learns about.
In the child's mind his whole being is comprised of the mouth. He is not conscious of the fact that he has anything else; his feet have no function and his hands are more or less useless, but he knows that he receives satisfaction and gratification through his mouth, and so concentrates all his attention on that oral cavity.
Thus it is that the oral compulsion is created in every living human being. It is easy enough to understand, therefore, why oral-genital contact has been part of man's sexual activities from the very beginning of time.
It is believed by some experts that orality is more commonly practiced in our modern day than in previous times. Whether this opinion is true or not can certainly be argued; perhaps the practice seems more common today because it is more openly discussed; in former times the subject was not considered in the least polite. That does not mean, however, that oral sex wasn't just as widespread.
The earliest cave dwellings contain crude drawings depicting man performing acts of fellatio and cunnilingus.
The word fellatio is of Latin origin and it is assumed that the practice was well-known enough in those times for the people to have come up with a word to describe the sex act. Also, the mosaics at Pompeii give ample evidence that oral sex was quite popular among at least the upper classes.
Ancient history is laced with references to oral sexual practices. Thus there is ample evidence that oral-genital contact is hardly an invention of modern man.
It may be said, however, that like many other discoveries of man, oral sex at times seems to have been "improved on" by modern man, and at times seems about to be ruined.
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