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>>21451886
>>21451890
>not normal
The point was not "normal" - it was "common". Normalcy is too vague a concept beyond actual statistical distributions, and it could be just as easily argued that oral sex is not "normal" today even in fucking LA California.

"Common" is somewhat easier though - we just have to admit that it was known and took place in quantity that is not insignificant. Although someone keeps evading the specifics, for some strange reason - just how much cultural.

>This one is hard to tell what’s going on
Anon, I...

>>21451987
>the ancient world had a single culture that was not subject to changing values during its decline
That's not how it is, duh - the point is rather that virtually every society ever at any point of it's history had social groups and stratas that engaged in much more sexual activities than average, and pursued a lot more variety in those acts. I would agree that in many periods such groups were much smaller than in others, though I would also argue that they literally never were made up out of "marginalized abnormals" - because every friggin' time it's the elites and their sex slave orgies, you know the people who actually commissioned all those expensive paintings and huge frescoes. The difference is measured in how much sexual gratification plebs manage to emulate in any given period - an there were literally no periods or societies in human history in which rich, powerful people were largely unfamiliar with the concept of sucking dick, and neither her were any such periods where plebs did not pursue elite's lifestyles and trappings of those lifestyles from themselves.

In this specific case, it means that people did engage in non-insignificant amounts of swallowing dick and eating puss through the entire human history. The counterpoint is based entirely on a single syllogism:
- In older times people were more moral.
- Oral sex is immoral.
- Therefore in older times people did not engage in oral sex.
You can see it in how only one side is presenting any actual historical evidence and data. Now what do you want next? Mentions of cunnilingus in Pompei graffiti or how much did XIX century St. Petersberg prostitutes charge for a blowjob?