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Non-penetrative sex (also known as outercourse and dry sex) is sexual activity without vaginal, anal, and possibly oral penetration, as opposed to intercourse.Kate Havelin (1999). Dating: "What Is a Healthy Relationship?". Capstone Press, 64. ISBN 0736802924. Isadora Alman (2001). Doing It: Real People Having Really Good Sex. Conari, 280. ISBN 1573245208. The terms mutual masturbation and frottage are also used, but with slightly different emphases. NPS and outercourse are rather new terms, which is why such practices are sometimes still called "intercourse".
No bodily fluids are intended to be exchanged, and outercourse is therefore often considered a practice of safer sex as well as of birth control (see below for exceptions). Outercourse in preparation for intercourse can form part of foreplay.
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Frot, a form of non-penetrative gay sex
A number of BDSM activities do not involve penetration. However they are not generally considered under the same heading, possibly because they involve their own special risks or possibly because they are not substitutes for "having sex".
With oral sex, there is a higher risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV) than with other forms of outercourse, but studies have shown, so far, that there is less chance of getting these diseases through oral sex than with intercourse"U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:- Table showing reduced risk from oral, as compared to vaginal or anal sex, accessed 04/05/07". . One can reduce the risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases this way by using barrier methods. The risk of pregnancy with oral sex is only through contact between sperm-bearing fluids such as semen or Cowper\'s fluid and female sex organs, though the sex organs aren\'t usually in close contact with oral sex.
Interfemoral intercourse and genital rubbing, although notionally forms of outercourse, can carry a risk of pregnancy through transfer of the sperm-bearing fluids to the sex organs, and that any of the activities above can pose a risk of sexually transmitted diseases if any body fluids are deposited on wounds or mucous membranes such as those of the sex organs or anal membranes.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, President Bill Clinton\'s surgeon general, tried to popularize outercourse as a means of sexual play for teens that would offer a safer alternative than sexual intercourse involving penile-vaginal or penile-anal penetration. However, her recommendation proved to be too controversial and she was fired by Clinton in December of 1994.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n1-2_v29/ai_19034244http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0D81038F935A35752C1A960958260http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982008,00.html
Mutual masturbation is a sexual act where two or more people stimulate themselves or one another sexually, usually with the hands.
Johann Nepomuk Geiger, watercolor, 1840.
This may be done in situations where the participants do not feel physically able (or that it is socially appropriate) or people are not ready to have full sexual intercourse, but still wish to have a mutual sexual act. It is also done as part of the full repertoire of sexual intercourse, where it may be used as an interlude, a form of foreplay or simply as an alternative activity to penetration. In some people, it is the primary sexual activity of choice above all others because it enables the individuals to see face to face and leaves the hands free to caress, as seen in frottage (see below). Mutual masturbation can be practiced by people of all sexual orientations. If used as an alternative to penile-vaginal penetration, the aim may be to preserve virginity or to prevent pregnancy. Some people may choose it as it achieves sexual satisfaction without actual sex, possibly seeing it as an alternative to casual sex.
The techniques of mutual masturbation resemble those of simple masturbation, with the exception another person is involved. The range of participation can be as simple as two people masturbating in the same room at the same time without touching one another to a group of people all stimulating one another. In the case of two people, one may stimulate their partner, each partner may stimulate the other, or one may stimulate both themselves and their partner.
Mutual masturbation might result in one or more of the partners achieving orgasm. If no bodily fluids are exchanged (as is common), mutual masturbation is a form of safer sex, and greatly reduces the risk of transmission of sexual diseases. As such it was encouraged among gay men by some safer sex organizations in the wake of the AIDS outbreak of the 1980s, as an alternative to anal or oral sex.
The terms "mutual masturbation" and "circle jerk" are sometimes used as vulgar metaphors. They can refer to a situation, often in the workplace, politics or academia, where people are stroking each other\'s ego without producing anything of value.
Two lovers by the Persian artist Reza Abbasi, 1630
Frottage, more commonly known as dry humping, is the act of achieving sexual pleasure with a partner or partners, whether naked or clothed, without penetration. This can include using almost every part of the body, including the buttocks, the breasts, abdomen, thighs, feet, hands, legs, and sexual organs. Frottage can include mutual genital rubbing, sometimes called genito-genital or GG rubbing and most of the other forms of non-penetrative sex.
There are many reasons a couple may choose frottage. The most common reasons are as a form of foreplay before intercourse or as a method to achieve sexual gratification without the more sexually explicit (and in some circumstances, forbidden) oral or vaginal sexual intercourse. Often young people will use frottage as an earlier stage of sexual intimacy before more explicit contact is desired, or as a substitute to intercourse to maintain a higher degree of chastity. Also, frottage can be done without getting undressed, and perhaps this is preferable. Panties, bras, pantyhose, socks, or stockings can aid in sexual arousal and stimulation.
Lap dances often involve clothed frottage. A modern dancing style which involves partners rubbing their clothed bodies on one another is called "grinding," "freaking," or "Sandwich dancing" and in Caribbean cultures where it is more accepted, it is referred to as "wining" or "flexing", known in the Spanish speaking territories as "perrear" ("dogging"). Much of West Indian music (esp. Jamaican Dancehall and Trinidad and Tobago\'s Soca, pronounced SOH-cah) makes frequent references to this style of dance.
The term frottage derives from the French verb frotter, "to rub."
Three distinct terms derive from the French verb frotter, "to rub," that are not to be confused:
Part of the reason for the confusion is that consensual frottage may have once been considered a perversion and lumped in with non-consensual frotteurism. This view is no longer widely held. The 1995 book Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors by Louis R. Franzini and Jon Squires declares frottage, in the appropriate context, to be a perfectly normal sexual behavior for anyone "male or female, homosexual or heterosexual."
Chikan (痴漢, チカン, or ちかん) is a Japanese term for frotteurism, or someone who commits such an act. The term is frequently used to describe men, who take advantage of the crowded conditions on the public transit systems to rub against women sexually. While the term is not defined in the Japanese legal system, vernacular usage of the word describes acts that violate several laws. Although women on crowded trains in Japan are the most frequent targets of chikan, sexual predators in Japan can take advantage of people of either sex in other situations as well.
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