What is Cunnilingus?
[[File:Wiki-cunnilingus.png|thumb|right|A [[drawing]] showing a woman performing cunnilingus on another woman.]] [[File:Sexual_scene_on_pompeian_mural.jpg|thumb|A [[fresco]] in [[Pompeii]], showing cunnilingus. The fresco dates to about 79 AD.]] '''Cunnilingus''' is when a person has [[oral sex]] with a vulva owner. They lick their (the vulva owner) [[sex organs]] with their [[lip]]s and [[tongue]]. The word comes from a [[Latin]] word for the [[vulva]] (''cunnus'') and from the Latin word for tongue (''lingua''). The [[clitoris]] is the main part of a vulva's owner sex organs that brings the most feeling. Often, a person reaches an [[orgasm]] during cunnilingus.<ref name=Shere>{{cite book| last = Hite| first = Shere| title = The Hite Report: a nationwide study of female sexuality| publisher = Seven Stories Press| date = 2004| location = New York, NY| pages = 11| isbn=1-58322-569-2}}</ref> In the past, some thought cunnilingus to be [[taboo]] (bad).<ref>Janell L. Carroll 2009. Sexuality now: embracing diversity. Cengage Learning. pp. 265–267. {{ISBN|978-0-495-60274-3}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=5f8mQx7ULs4C&pg=PA265]</ref> People in some countries still think of it as taboo. However, many people in [[Western world|western]] and other cultures have oral sex.<ref name=Shere/> == References == {{reflist}} {{sex-stub}} [[Category:Sexual acts]]