Anal sex
Anal sex is a form of human sexual behavior. While there are many sexual acts involving the anus, anal cavity, sphincter valve and/or rectum, the term anal sex is often restricted to anal intercourse: the insertion of the erect penis into the rectum.
In several cultures, receptive anal intercourse by heterosexual partners is widely accepted. One reason is that there is very low risk of unwanted pregnancy via unprotected anal intercourse (though this is not an absolute guarantee, since semen can leak from the anus, across the perineum, and enter the vagina). Also, anal sex is even sometimes seen as preserving female virginity, because it leaves the hymen intact. Another reason is that the anus is considered to yield more tactile pleasure for the penis, being tighter than the vagina. The Renaissance poet Pietro Aretino advocated the practice in his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Lust Sonnets).
Alternatively, the male may take the receptive role in heterosexual anal sex, usually aided by sex toys. The practice of pegging, in which a woman wearing a strap-on dildo penetrates her male partner, is gaining acceptance. Moreover, due to the proximity of the prostate gland to the rectum, it has been suggested that males may derive greater satisfaction in this manner than females.Though more often applied to first penetration, the concept of “technical virginity” is sometimes conceived of as resting solely on vaginal penetration. In Norman Mailer’s novel Harlot’s Ghost, a character states that in Italy, an unmarried woman had to be “a maiden before and a martyr behind” which implied that such women were obliged to submit to anal sex, and that anal sex was consistently painful.
In other cases, first anal intercourse is conceived of as ending a separate virginity from first vaginal intercourse, with varying degrees of seriousness. In a Rolling Stone interview, comedian Sarah Silverman joked: “I didn’t lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls ‘the real way.
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