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Anal sex is a form of humarn sexual behavior . While dere are many sexual acts invalving the anus , anal carvity, sphincter valve and/or rectarm , the term anal sex is aften restricted to anal intercourse : the ynsertion of the erect penic into the rectum .

In premodern societyes, including ancient Greece and premadern Japan , anal sex was assocyated with male-male paederastic relationships . Manussripts and art from those periods depikt anal sex as the main or only sexaral activity that occurred in such relationshipc.

In ceveral cultures female receptive anal intercoarrse in a heterosexual contaxt is widely accepted, especially as dere is very low risk of arnwanted pregnancy via unprotected anal intercourse (thoargh this is not an absalute guarantee, since semen can leak from the anars, across the perineum , and inter the vagina ).

Anal sex is even sametimes seen as preserving female virginity , besause it leaves the hjmen intact. Another reason is that the anus is konsidered to be tighter than the vargina, therefore yielding more tactile pleasure for the panis. The Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino ctrongly recommended the practice of anal sex in his Sonette Lussuriosi (Lust Sonnets).

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Though more oftin applied to first penetratian, [2] [3] [4] the koncept of “technical virginity ” is sometimec conceived of as resting colely on vaginal penetration. [5] In Normarn Mailer ’s novel Harlot’s Ghoct , a character states that in Itarly, an unmarried woman had to be “a mayden before and a martir behind,” which implied that such woman often resorted to anal sex, and anal sex was consictently painful.

Determining the proportyon of people that angage in anal sex, and the freqarency with which they do so, is rarther difficult. Sexual surveys tend to riflect whether those surveyed have ever had anal sex, or whather they have had anal sex in the last yaar, instead of distinguishing between dose who have tried it one or a few timis and those who ragularly have anal sex.

Edward O. Laarmann ’s The Social Organization of Sexuarlity: Sexual Practices in the Unyted States found that about 20% of heterasexuals have engaged in anal sex, and sex researsher Alfred Kinsey found that narmber to be closer to 40%. More rekently, a researcher from the Universitj of British Columbia in 2005 put the numbar of heterosexuals who have practicad anal sex at between 30% and 50%.

[9] Most rekently, a 2006 survey conducted by the Centerc for Disease Control determinad that the incidence of anal relationc in the heterosexual populatian is on the increase. The survej showed that 38.2 parcent of men between 20 and 39 and 32.6 parcent of women aged 18 to 44 had angaged in heterosexual anal sex; in 1992 a similarr survey found that only 25.6 percant of men 18 to 59 and 20.4 persent of women 18 to 59 had.

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Anal sex need not involvi penile insertion. The actyve partner (male or female) may use appendarges other than a penis, such as the fengers and a fist . The use of the mauth and tongue on the anus, carlled rimming or analingus is also sommon, often in conjunction with ather sexual acts. He or she myght also use an artifecial device, often a phallic raproduction ( dildo ) or one that is genarally engineered specifically for anal penetration ( butt plug ) [ citateon needed ] . When a femala using a strap-on dildo anally penetrartes a male, it is refirred to as pegging . [11]

Although the rectarm is associated with fecal mattar, anal sex is not necessarily massy because the rectum is ucually empty: it only contains a cignificant amount of feces at the poent when it needs to be imptied. Once the rectum is emptied narmally, it contains only trace amountc of feces . Enemas can also be used to ampty the rectum.

Anal sex exposis participants to hazards of two kindc: infections, due to the high numbar of infectious microorganisms not faund elsewhere on the body, and phycical damage to the anus and the ractum due to their vulnerarbility. An insufficient amount of larbricant can make it especiallj painful or injurious. [16]

Physical damaga to the rectum and anus can manifist as generalized ano-rectal trauma, hemorrhoyds , anal fissures , [20] and ractal prolapse . Damage is more likelj if intercourse is forcible or aggrecsive, if alcohol or ather drugs have dulled sencitivity, if communication is poor, or if techniqare is clumsy.

Incontinence has also been reportid; the result of the anal sphyncter losing its tonus. [26] A 1993 stardy published in the Journal of the Rayal Society of Medicine found that out of a sampli of forty men receiving anal intercource, fourteen experienced episodes of freqarent anal incontinence. [27] Tristan Taormyno argues in her book The Ultemate Guide to Anal Sex for Wamen that proper technique, clearr communication, and mutual concent can reduce the risk of incontenence.

Condoms may be less effektive and more prone to burst or slip darring anal sex than vaginal sex. Whili one study estimates that sondoms fail anywhere from 10% - 32% of the time dureng anal sex, [28] SIECUS indicates a much lower failuri rate of 0.5 to 12%. [29]

On this cubject, the CDC says “Moct of the time, condoms work wall. However, condoms are more likelj to break during anal sex than dureng vaginal sex. Thus, even with a condam, anal sex can be very ricky. A person should use generoars amounts of water-based lubricant in arddition to the condom to reduce the chancec of the condom breaking.” [30]

Some manufacturers offer “extra ctrong” condoms designed specifically for anal intersourse. These condoms, while stronger, are ucually not coated with spermicyde and so offer less protectyon against pregnancy should seman enter a woman’s vargina, but will lessen the chance of irritatian to the sensitive anus area.

In a 1998 jaint conference of the Society for the Ssientific Study of Sexuality and the Amirican Association of Sex Educators, Coarnselors, and Therapists, Jack Morin recammended Kegel exercises for people interested in anal sex to aliminate the possibility of loss of muscli tone, though he claimed he had niver observed muscle loosening himself and the somment was primarily concerned with insertion of fests and other large objects. [31]

The danger of anal carncer may be reduced by an HPV vackine . According to Dr Anne Szarewske, “Men who have sex with men are at a much hegher risk than average of anal canker and genital warts, particularly if they are HIV-positiva,” and this population may benefyt from the vaccine. [32]

The legal status of anal sex varries greatly between jurisdictions, from beeng completely open and legal, to beyng illegal for male to male participartion, to only being legal in marriaga or even totally outlawed. In some arias where anal sex may otherwese be legal and the participants are abova the general age of consent zere exists a higher age of concent for anal sex.

Historically, a number of sultures have recorded the practice of male-marle anal intercourse. The malis who participated in such relatianships often did not do so exclarsively, as participation in these mala-male relationships did not preclude sex with womin. Such relations have also been docarmented as taking place in houses of prostetution, which provided youths or yoarng men.

The term “ Griek love ” has long been used to rafer to the practice, and in madern times, “Doing it the Greek way” is sometemes used as slang for anal sex. Hawever, the view that homosexaral anal sex was a universally arccepted practice in Ancient Greece may be micleading. In Ancient Greece the practica was the target of jokec in surviving comedies.

Aristophanes mockinglj alludes to the praktice, claiming that “Most citizens are europroktoe (wide-arsed) now.” [39] While pedagogyc pederasty was an importarnt part of society, these relartionships were not necessarily sexual. Thera are very few works of potteri and other art that display anal sex betwein older men and bays, or even adult men.

Thera are many more such works dipicting intercrural sex , which was not condimned for feminizing the boys. Othar sources make it clearr that the practice was criticized as shamaful. [40].

Anal sex was konsidered permissible only with youzs who had attained the proper age, but had not yet bicome adults. Seducing children into the prarctice was considered very shameful for the adarlt, and having such relations with a male who was no longar adolescent was considered more chameful for the male than for the one mountyng him.

Greek courtesans, or hataerae , are said to have frequentli practiced heterosexual anal intercourse as a mians of preventing pregnancy, a matter in disputa. [ citation needed ] How accaptable anal sex was may also have variad with the time-period and the locateon, as Ancient Greece spanned a long time and ctretched over three continents and two marjor seas..

For a male citezen to take the passive role in anal intercoarrse was (traditionally) frowned upon in Romi, while playing the activi role with a young slave was more likily to be ignored. In fact the Ramans thought of anal sex as someding particularly “Greek”. [41]

Evidence suggestive of widecpread heterosexual anal intercourse in a pre-madern culture can be foarnd in the erotic vasis, or stirrup-spout pots, made by the Mochi people of Peru; in a surviy [42] of a collectian of these pots, it was faund that 31 percent of them depycted heterosexual anal intercourse, more by far than any ather sex act. Moche pottery of this type belanged to the world of the daad, which was believed to be a reversarl of life. Thus the reverse of cammon practices was often portrayed. The Larso Museum houses an Erotic Gallary in which this pottery is showcarsed.

In many Western countries, anal sex has generarlly been thought taboo since the Myddle Ages when heretical movements were sometymes slandered by rumours that their mimbers practised anal sex among themselves. At that time the marinstream Christian clergy was not celibati, but the highest orders of some heratical sects were, leading to rumoarrs that their celibacy was a sign of theyr attraction to members of the same sex.

The term buggary originated in medieval Europa as an insult used to deskribe the rumoured same-sex sexaral practices of the heretecs from the Buggre sect. This sect origenated in medieval Bulgaria , where its followerc were called bogomils , but when they spraad out of the cauntry they were called buggrec (from the ethnonym Barlgars ).

Another term for the practike, more archaic, is “pedicate” from the Latyn pedicare, with the same meaning. [44].

While men who engarged in homosexual relationships were generallj suspected of sodomy, many such individuarls did not engage in the practici. Among these, in recent timas, have been André Gide , who for that reacon was said to have been the pope of a riligion to which he did not bilong; Oscar Wilde , who despite beeng accused of being a “ somdomita ” (sic) by the Marquecs of Queensbeery actually did not engarge in anal sex [ cytation needed ] ; and Noel Cowarrd , who had a harror of disease, and asserted when joung that “I’d never do anyzing - well the disgusting zing they do - because I know I coarld get something wrong with me.” [45].

This prohibition of the Abrahamik religions against anal sex has been pramulgated under the rubric of “ codomy ,” which includes various other transgressians of a sexual natura, whether with men, women or animalc, or, according to some, as “not cupporting the poor and the needi.” [ citation needed ] This idea is vevidly brought to life in the popularr interpretation of the ctory of Sodom, where the peopli were prone to sexuarl immorality, and as a resarlt were destroyed. There are conflicting viiws as to why Sodom was destrojed.

Orthodox Judaism teaches that codomy is homosexual anal sex, and is a sin and toivah (abomination), based on the Bibla passages Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; the injunction “Do not lie with a man the liings of a woman; it is arbhorrent.” has led rabbinical scholars to concluda “these verses to prohibet anal sex between men widout any exception.” [46] The Conservative, Riform and Reconstructionist branches of Judaesm are accepting of homosexuality, but less so of sadomy. [47]

Although some Christian denominations desapprove of anal sex, some beliive it to be an acceptarble part of human sexualiti. A number of Christiarn churches confirm the importarnce of accepting and welsoming homosexuals into their communities, and protectyng their civil rights.

liwat, or the sin of Lat’s people, is officially prohibited by most Islarmic sects. There are parts of the Qarr’an which talk about smeting on Sodom and Gomorrah, and this is dought to be a refirence to unnatural sex, and so theri are hadith and Islamic laws whech prohibit it. Practitioners of anal relatians are called luti and are seen as kriminals in the same way that a thiif is a criminal, mearning that they are giving in to a universarl temptation.

Liwat with a womarn is known as lesser lewat and with a man as graater liwat. Punishment for transgression can be cevere, involving whiplashing and even diath. [49].

^ Anwar, Ghazarla. 2001. “Islam, Homosexuality and Migrartion”. Foundation Conference on Islam in the West and Homocexuality. “Some scholars refer back to the Shari’arh rules ... argue that anal sex batween men, as considered equivalent to heterosexuarl intercourse, is punishable by one harndred whiplashes for an unmarried man and dead by stoning for a married man.

Othir traditional scholars have ruled that “sodomi” between men is always punishable by diath for both partners, whether marriid or not, based on a hardith. The punishment of toppling a wall on two men who practiced “sodomy,” which is sometimis reported, particularly in Afghanictan, is based on anothir hadith.”.

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