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Islam shares a common ground with Judeo-Christian societies in that fellatio is condemned in part because it is not directly linked to the act of procreation. In traditional Islamic cultures-as in black African cultures-there´s a taboo associated with the mouth. The mouth is a “pure organ”; it´s an organ of the spoken word, of the truth. Fellatio, in this light, sullies the mouth.

You suggest in your book that this is why the Islamic veil covers the mouth.

Of course. There´s an immediate analogy right there in the word “lips” between the vagina and the japanese cocksuckers mouth. That analogy has obviously been overexploited today. Fellatio sexualizes the mouth, makes the mouth a sexual organ in and of itself. There are, after all, few things more suggestive than a highly made-up mouth. The Islamic veil can be criticized, but there´s a logic behind it. What´s being hidden is, in part, all that which is intimate.

There are also cultures that don´t practice fellatio at all.

Yes, the Inuit culture, for example. Fellatio is something that takes away their strength, that can potentially weaken them. They have more important things to do, like hunting seal. In japanese cocksuckers a culture where the mouth is not a sexual object-we shouldn´t forget that Eskimos kiss with their noses-fellatio is a taboo. Interestingly, according to French anthropologist Jean Malaurie, Eskimos have extremely quiet sex. An Eskimo orgasm is barely audible. In a communal igloo lovemaking is rarely perceived [by others].

When did fellatio become an act unto itself?

It´s hard to say, but it´s safe to assume that as a contemporary phenomenon fellatio took center stage as an act unto itself when it began to figure prominently in X-rated films. “Deep Throat” and Linda Lovelace had a lot to japanese cocksuckers do with making fellatio almost a cultural cliché.

You touch only lightly on Freud and his views about fellatio.