4 Most Popular Sex Positions + Where They Came From

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The 69 position actually stirs up a lot of debate. Take this Reddit thread for example. Some think 69 is a way for everyone to gets their rocks off at once. Others think it stands in the way of pleasure because you can’t focus on your own while pleasing someone else.

Love it or hate it, 69 has been around for a while. Around the French Revolution, in 1790, Belgian singer Anne-Josephe Théroigne de Méricou described it in the book The Whore’s Catechisms, referring to it as soixante-neuf (69).

Over 100 years later, the English started using the term numerically. In the ancient Kama Sutra, there is a description of two people going down on each other in what the book called the “Congress of a Crow” position. In the text, they describe two women in a harem doing it to each other, or a man and a woman. They said it could be performed on the genitals or anus, with both people lying on their sides or one on top of the other.

The first alleged image of the act was on a preserved oil-lamp from 1921, that appeared in the Munich Museum. However, there are reports of a Hindu temple structure of a man standing up, with a woman hanging upside down in front of him — her feet on his shoulders – and the two performing oral on each other.

 

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