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Outercourse (also known as non-penetrative sex) is sexual activity without vaginal, anal, and possibly oral penetration, as opposed to intercourse. Outercourse in preparation for intercourse can form part of foreplay. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sexual behavior is a form of physical intimacy that may be directed to reproduction (one possible goal of sexual intercourse) and/or to the enjoyment of activity involving sexual gratification. ... Sexual penetration (as opposed to outercourse) typically involves the insertion of the penis into a bodily orifice. ... The word intercourse refers to: Look up intercourse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

A man's penis is placed between a woman's breasts during mammary intercourse

No bodily fluids are intended to be exchanged, and outercourse is therefore often considered a practice of safer sex as well as of birth control (see below for exceptions). Image File history File links Mamintb. ... Image File history File links Mamintb. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-12-04, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Bodily fluids are fluids, which are generally excreted or secreted from the human body. ... Safe sex (also called safer sex) is a term describing practices designed to reduce the risk of sustaining or imparting sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) (also known as sexually-transmitted diseases or STDs in the US). ... Birth control is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant or giving birth. ...

Types of outercourse

• Axillary intercourse, where a man rubs his penis in another person's armpit, also known as bagpiping.
• Fingering, stimulating female genitals with the hand
• Frot, penile-penile rubbing between two males
• Frottage, any form of consensual sexual rubbing, whether naked or clothed
• Handjob, stimulating male genitals with the hand
• Intercrural sex, also known as Interfemoral intercourse, where a man places his penis between the partner's thighs
• Mammary intercourse, when a man rubs his penis between a woman's breasts.
• Mutual masturbation, rubbing of the genitals
• Oral sex, using the mouth on another's genitals, though some definitions exclude oral sex as a form of outercourse due to disease risk ^[1]
• Tribadism, vulval-vulval rubbing between two females

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Risks

With oral sex, there is a higher risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV) than with other forms of outercourse, but studies have shown, so far, that there is less chance of getting these diseases through oral sex than with intercourse^{[citation needed]}. One can reduce the risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases this way by using barrier methods. The risk of pregnancy with oral sex is only through contact between sperm-bearing fluids such as semen or Cowper's fluid and female sex organs, though the sex organs aren't usually in close contact with oral sex. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — also known as sexually transmissible diseases(STDs), venereal diseases (VD), or infrequently, social disease — are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. ... Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — also known as sexually transmissible diseases(STDs), venereal diseases (VD), or infrequently, social disease — are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ... Barrier methods are methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease by forming an impenetrable barrier between sexual partners. ... Horse semen being collected for breeding purposes. ... Pre-ejaculate (also known as pre-ejaculatory fluid or Cowpers fluid) is the clear lubricating fluid that is issued from a mans penis when he is aroused. ...

Interfemoral intercourse and genital rubbing, although notionally forms of outercourse, can carry a risk of pregnancy through transfer of the sperm-bearing fluids to the sex organs, and that any of the activities above can pose a risk of sexually transmitted diseases if any body fluids are deposited on wounds or mucous membranes such as those of the sex organs or anal membranes. A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ... Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — also known as sexually transmissible diseases(STDs), venereal diseases (VD), or infrequently, social disease — are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ... Bodily fluids are fluids, which are generally excreted or secreted from the human body. ... Superficial bullet wounds In medicine, a wound is a type of physical trauma wherein the skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). ... The mucous membranes (or mucosae; singular: mucosa) are linings of mostly endodermal origin, covered in epithelium, and are involved in absorption and secretion. ...

Support by medical establishment

Dr. Joycelyn Elders, President Bill Clinton's surgeon general, tried to popularize outercourse as a means of sexual play for teens that would offer a safer alternative than sexual intercourse involving penile-vaginal or penile-anal penetration.^{[citation needed]} However, her recommendation was opposed by the religious right. Eventually, Elders resigned. Joycelyn Elders Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. ... The term Religious Right is a broad label applied by both scholars and critics to a number of political and religious movements and groups that primarily are active around conservative and right wing social issues. ...

Notes

1. ^ "Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary".

External link

• "Great sex without intercourse", NVSH (contains graphics of sexual acts)