Frot?

[+ TheKnobGobbler]

all perversions at some point, but not considered so now

 

We have so many better perversions nowadays. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet of depravity, and we lucky bastards get to eat at that buffet as often and as much as we want! Yay perversion!!!

[+ quoththeraven]

Some scholars of Ancient Greek culture now believe that the sexual relationships between mature adult men and younger men, once regarded as anal sex ( what the English referred to as the Greek perversion) was probably intercrural sex. Frottage derives from the French verb frotter meaning to rub. It was the first sexual act I ever did with another man (in 1970). At the beginning of the AIDS crisis, when sex became fraught with fear and regarded as a dangerous pursuit, It became one of a very few activities you could enjoy with another guy without risk of infection. However I was always buck naked while enjoying this activity.

The ancient Greeks philosophically favored intercrural sex over anal. It's an open question how much they followed their ideology.

[+ quoththeraven]

Before the moral-outrage brigade gets too excited from their tiresome virtue-signalling, may I point out the following.

 

1. Personally, I've no problem with whatever 2 (or more) people choose to do sexually if the behaviour is consensual.

2. I referred to a book that I had to read some 40 years ago, which was rather eye-opening as to the wide range of activities possible.

3. Today, the best term for this would be a 'paraphilia' but that term is rather recent and I wonder how many here would have understood it instantly.

 

Interestingly, what has been ignored here (and which I did not mention) is that 'frot' is often a form of sexual assault nowadays. It occurs on crowded bus, train and subway services, involves a non-consenting partner and typically involves a heterosexual male rubbing up against a female.

Nom-consensual rubbing against someone else in public is a paraphilia, which is a form of mental disorder. Consensual frottage is not.

[JayCeeKy]

Frottage, as it applies to the gay community, refers to rubbing, grinding, dry humping and other non-penetrative contact between two willing partners. Clothes are optional. Some guys are into “bumping butts.” Others opt to rub their penises together. There are a lot of ways to frot, but most have the same end goal in mind: climax.

 

There are websites that provide frotting enthusiasts a place to get together with like-minded partners. Participants engage in “phallus-to-phallus, face-to-face and heart-to-heart” sex. Others choose to start with frotting, before going further. On one forum, a user writes, “I love the sensation that this type of rubbing between two men gives… it makes a great way to get ready for either oral sex or anal sex.”

 

But why has the trend taken off? Isn’t frotting just one big tease? Isn’t penetrative sex, in any of its forms, always preferable to non-penetrative stimulation? In short, no.

 

When asked about frotting, one friend tells me, “Imagine if you have two tops, if neither wants to be penetrated, where does that leave them? Plus, friction does lead to pleasure. It’s mental, too.”

 

--- Alternet