"Oral Sex" Difficult to Antedate

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:06 AM -0500 1/5/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>I thought the OED's 1959 dating for "oral sex" should be antedatable, but
>this is proving difficult.  I searched all the databases I could think of
>and spent a few minutes perusing my library's modest collection of books
>on sex, homosexuality and prostitution from the 1950s, but found nothing.
>Other terms seem to have been used, like "oral copulation," "mouth-genital
>contact," "fellatio," etc.  It may be that the specific phrase "oral sex"
>is not the important one, but rather the use of "oral" as an adjective
>relating to sex, and OED does have collocations like "oral masturbation"
>(at first glance a very acrobatic term!) back to 1889.


Well, there is also "autofellatio", but I don't know how far back
that goes (as it were)...

L