This article is about the human sexual practice. For queening in chess, see queening.
In the field of human sexual behavior, queening is a sex act in which a woman sits over a man's face, typically to allow oral-genital or oral-anal contact. It is common for a domme to subject a submissive to this position as a form of demonstrating superiority. A device known as a queening stool is sometimes used to facilitate this activity.
Queens in heat exhibit soliciting behavior by assuming the posture of lordosis, treading their hindlimbs and presenting their perineal area to the tom cat.
The bitch or queen should allow the offspring to nurse and should lick the genitals after feeding to stimulate urination and defecation; this behavior should continue until the pups or kittens are mobile, at about three weeks of age.
Occasionally queens will kill kittens from other females in a facility; it is thought this is a predator-prey response since they do not recognize those kittens as their own and kittens are the size of prey.
Queening - a ritual recognizing, announcing and honoring a woman's full maturity and introducing and commending her to the gods.
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Thurible - a metal incense burner, sometimes suspended from a triple chain, used for cleansing and as a symbol of air in ritual.