# When did oral sex become a common part of sex?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-oral-sex-become-a-common-part-of-sex/822902 "2018-10-13T14:08:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-oral-sex-become-a-common-part-of-sex/822902/128 "2018-10-17T19:04:21Z")

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> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Exactly how many traditional culture people’s bums have you inspected in order to speak with such authority?

I’ve worked among or spent time with traditional cultures in Central America (Embera, Guna, Ngabe-Bugle, Teribe), South America (Yaminawa, Machiguenga and others; one of my field assistants was an adult before his tribe was contacted by missionaries), Africa (pygmies, Maasai), New Guinea (Arfak mountains), and Melanesia (Fiji). What is your opinion based on?

I’ve spent months living with the Embera. They are very cleanly. In villages that lack latrines, they have a specific place where people go to defecate, and they bathe frequently. I’ve never noticed that any other person from a traditional culture had any odor of fecal matter about them. They might sometimes smell of sweat, but not of that.

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> Are they the ones who taught you how to do a 69 with no ass to face proximity?

Again, I take this to indicate you have no substantive response.

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