Editing Mammary intercourse

{{Short description|Non-penetrative sex act}}
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[[File:Wiki-mam-intcs.png|thumb|An illustration by [[Seedfeeder]] of the woman in a [[Lying (position)|lying position]] with the man [[Ejaculation|ejaculating]]]]
'''Mammary intercourse''' is a [[Human sexual activity|sex act]], performed as either [[foreplay]] or as [[non-penetrative sex]], that involves the stimulation of a man's [[Human penis|penis]] by a woman's [[breast]]s and vice versa.<ref name="Alex Comfort 1972 p. 67-9">Alex Comfort, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972) p. 67-9</ref> It involves placing the penis between a woman's breasts and moving the penis up and down to simulate [[sexual penetration]] and to create sexual pleasure.

==Practice==
[[File:Thomas Rowlandson - The Larking Cull (cropped).jpg|thumb|Painting of mammary intercourse <abbr>c.</abbr> 1800]]
Mammary intercourse involves a man kneeling or sitting on a woman's stomach or chest, placing his [[Erection|erect]] penis on her [[Cleavage (breasts)|cleavage]], and rubbing or [[pelvic thrust|thrusting]] while the breasts are squeezed around the penile shaft, by either the woman or the man, creating tightness similar to [[masturbation]],<ref name="Alex Comfort 1972 p. 67-9"/> and in simulation of [[penetrative sex]]. A [[personal lubricant|lubricant]] or [[saliva]] may be used between the breasts or on the penis. Alternatively, the woman can tighten her breasts around the penis and move them back and forth. Other [[sex position|positions]] involve either the man standing while the woman kneels, or the man laying back with the woman on top.

In some cases, mammary intercourse can be combined with [[oral sex]]. Mammary intercourse may be carried out face to face or head to tail. 

Mammary intercourse is mostly suited for women with naturally larger breasts, while it is recommended that women with smaller breasts be on top.<ref>Alex Comfort, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972) p. 69</ref> Smaller female breasts, however, tend to be more sensitive than larger ones.<ref name=levin>{{cite journal|last=Levin|first=Roy J.|title=The breast/nipple/areola complex and human sexuality|doi=10.1080/14681990600674674|journal=Sexual & Relationship Therapy|volume=21|issue=2|date=May 2006|pages=237–249|s2cid=219696836 }}</ref>

The woman normally does not receive direct sexual stimulation during mammary intercourse, other than the [[erotic stimulation]] of bringing her partner to orgasm, without sexual penetration. However, [[Alex Comfort]] has said that mammary intercourse can produce orgasm in women with sensitive breasts (what [[Margot Anand]] terms ''local orgasms of the breast''), and it was one of the nine substitute exercises for penetrative sexual activities, as detailed in the ''Paradis Charnels'' of 1903.<ref>Alex Comfort, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972) pp. 69, 175 and 176</ref><ref>Margo Ananad, ''The Art of Sexual Ecstasy'' (1990) p. 309</ref> It is possible for the man to perform a [[Fingering (sex act)|fingering]] on the woman during mammary intercourse.

Since mammary intercourse is a non-penetrative sex act, the risk of passing a [[sexually transmitted infection]] (STI) that requires direct contact between the [[mucous membranes]] and [[pre-ejaculate]] or [[semen]] is greatly reduced. [[HIV]] is among the infections that require such direct contact and is therefore very unlikely to be transmitted via mammary intercourse.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kelly|first=Jeffrey A.|title = Advances in HIV/AIDS education and prevention|journal=Family Relations|volume=44|issue=4|pages=345–352|date=October 1995|issn=0197-6664|jstor=584989|doi=10.2307/584989}}</ref> A study of the [[condom]] usage habits of New Zealand's [[sex worker]]s said that they offered various [[safe sex]] alternatives to [[Sexual intercourse|vaginal sex]] to clients who refused to wear a condom. One sex worker said that mammary intercourse was one alternative used; mammary intercourse performed by a woman with large breasts felt to the client like penetrative vaginal sex.<ref name="davis">Woods, 1996, in  Davis, pages 125-127</ref>

Depictions of the practice, at least in advertising, have been described as [[pornography|pornographic]] or [[erotic]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Citation O'Barr | first1 = W. M. | year = 2011 | title = Sex and Advertising | journal = Advertising & Society Review | volume = 12 | issue = 2| page = 2 | doi=10.1353/asr.2011.0019| s2cid = 154834026 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Mammary intercourse has sometimes been considered a [[perversion]].<ref>Clifford Allen, ''A Textbook of Psychosexual Disorders'' (1969) p. 200</ref> [[Sigmund Freud]], however, considered such extensions of sexual interest to fall within the range of the normal, unless marked out by exclusivity (i.e. the repudiation of all other forms of sexual contact).<ref>Sigmund Freud, ''On Sexuality'' (PFL 7) p. 65 and p. 75</ref>

==Slang terms==
Slang terms for mammary intercourse include:

*'''Titty-fuck''',<ref>{{cite book |last=Millar |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhJIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT298 |title=The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History |date=2020 |publisher=Hachette |isbn=9781911350446 |page=298}}</ref> '''titjob''' or '''titfuck''' in the United States
*'''Tit wank''' or '''French fuck''' in the United Kingdom – the latter term dating back to the 1930s; while a more jocular equivalent is ''a trip down mammary lane''.<ref name=french>Godson, page 96.</ref><ref>M. S. Morton, ''The Lover's Tongue'' (2003) p. 187</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Human sexuality}}
* [[Breast fetishism]]
* ''[[Kama Sutra]]''
* [[Non-penetrative sex]]
* [[Pearl necklace (sexual act)]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title = The Japanese art of sex: how to tease, seduce, & pleasure the samurai in your bedroom | first = Jina |last= Bacarr | edition = illustrated | publisher = [[Stone Bridge Press]] | year = 2004 | page = 150 | isbn  = 1-880656-84-1| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jbXurIlB_pUC&q=paizuri&pg=PA150 }}
* {{cite book |title=Japanese street slang |first=Peter |last=Constantine |author-link=Peter Constantine |url-access=registration |publisher=Tengu Books |year=1992 |page=110 |isbn=0-8348-0250-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/japanesestreetsl0000cons/page/110 |quote=One of the more hazardous {{lang|ja-latn|oppai|italic=no}} [Japanese slang word meaning 'breast'] concoctions is the red-light-district expression {{lang|ja-latn|paizuri|italic=no}}, literally 'breast-urbation'.}}
* {{cite book | author= Godson, Suzi | title=The Sex Book|publisher= Cassell Illustrated, London| year=2002 | isbn= 0-304-35991-2}}
* {{cite book  |author1=Masters, William H.  |author2=Johnson, Virginia E.  |name-list-style=amp  |title=Human Sexual Response  |publisher=No  |year=1966  |isbn=0-316-54987-8  |url-access=registration  |url=https://archive.org/details/humansexualrespo00will  }}
* {{cite book |author=Viz |url=https://archive.org/details/vizpresentsroger0000unse |title=Roger's Profanisaurus Rex: The Ultimate Swearing Dictionary |publisher=Viz |year=2005 |isbn=0-7522-2812-9 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book | title = Intimate Details & Vital Statistics: AIDS, Sexuality and the Social Order in New Zealand |author= Austen Woods |chapter= Safe sex and parlour work: condom use by women parlour workers in and out of work |editor = Peter Davis | publisher = [[Auckland University Press]] | year = 1996 | pages = 125–127 | isbn = 1-86940-139-5 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ww17hRdmDi8C&q=%22pearl+necklace%22+sexual&pg=PA127 }}

==External links==
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-Mammary intercourse-article.oga|date=2009-09-03}}
*{{Commons category-inline|Mammary intercourse}}
*[https://sexinfo101.com/guides/inter-mammary Inter-Mammary Intercourse]

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