There is a current resurgence in the world of sex that has been considered long overdue by some for a very long time: the resurgence of anal play. Anal sex and other forms of play regarding the anus have been very, very popular for a very, very long time, cross-culturally and worldwide, though it’s practiced by a minority population today.
Of all of the cultures of the world, the Moche culture of prehistoric Peru and other parts of South America could likely be considered the ultimate anal-obsessed culture, leaving us pots not unlike those of the ancient Greeks depicting racy sex scenes of luscious debauchery. One thing is conspicuously absent from the pots which depict acts of heterosexual activities: vaginal sex is noticeably almost nonexistent.
The art of the culture of the day was almost entirely a worship of anal sex, something that many modern, American and otherwise western counterparts seem to align themselves with. The Middle Ages saw a dampening of attitudes towards anal sex, including analingus, particularly because the Christian church saw anal sex as “sodomy” and it was thus quite prohibitive to engage in such activities until the more recent two centuries. The first modern, scientific use of the term “analingus” stems from 1886 when it was employed by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and it’s been in practice at least since then in the contemporary world.
