A gang bang (or gangbang) is a situation in which one individual, either a woman or a man, has sexual intercourse with multiple partners in turn.[1] The term has often been used interchangeably with gang rape but is now increasingly applied only to consensual sexual behavior in the sexual swinging community. It exists as a specialized form of group sex and sometimes figures in sexual fantasy. It is also the subject of a genre of pornography, complete with its own sub-genres ("cream pie gang bang", "anal gang bang", "lesbian gang bang", "drunk gang bang" etc).
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Gangbanging in history
There is ample evidence that the practice was known in various cultures in ancient times, though not by this name. For example, Messalina of the Roman Empire was particularly famous for enjoying gangbangs, and Clodia was accused of it. Of Messalina, Pliny the Elder writes in his Natural History (Book 10, Chapter 83(63), 172):
| “ | Other animals become sated with venereal pleasures, man hardly knows any satiety. Messalina, the wife of Claudius Cæsar, thinking this a palm quite worthy of an empress, selected, for the purpose of deciding the question, one of the most notorious of the women who followed the profession of a hired prostitute; and the empress outdid her, after continuous intercourse, night and day, at the twenty-fifth embrace. | ” |
Gangbanging today
Today, there are numerous swingers clubs around the world that cater to women and their partners in search of gangbangs. A flourishing gangbang culture exists in Italy where thousands of couples advertise in search of men to fill gangbang rosters. Gangbang parties also flourish in the US, UK, Netherlands, France, and Germany. Most of these gangbangs are made up of amateurs, but there also has been some crossover of professionals providing services to groups of men willing to pay to participate in a gangbang. Gangbangs vary in activity, but most gangbangs include the use of condoms for vaginal penetration combined with bareback oral sex and manual genital stimulation performed by the woman for the men and the men for themselves.
Gang bang pornography
Though there have been numerous gang bang pornographic films since the 1980s, they usually involve no more than half a dozen to a dozen men. But starting with The World's Biggest Gangbang (1995), starring Annabel Chong, the pornographic industry began producing a series of films ostensibly setting gangbang records for most consecutive sex acts by one person in a short period.[2] The films were financially successful, winning AVN Awards for the best selling pornographic films of their year; however the events were effectively un-officiated and the record breaking claims often misleading.[3]
Derivative terms
Derivative terms for gangbang include gangie, gang splash and gang slash. When men form a line to have sex with a willing woman, the action of the woman has been referred to as pulling a train. Also, when discussing plans for a gangbang, men often refer to it as 'running a train'; as in "Let's run a train on this ho". When the act is restricted to one woman giving oral sex to several men, it is referred to as a gangsuck or blowbang.
See also
External links
- Sympathetic biography of Messalina archive.org
- "Banging a Gang", scientific survey of women who initiate encounters with three or more men. Joan Dixon, Ph.D. and Dwight Dixon, Ph.D., Libido magazine. Retrieved July 24, 2007.
References
- ^ Merriam-Webster dictionary
- ^ "The gang's all here (Hope flickers at the World's Biggest Gangbang)" by Kevin Bisch, Salon Magazine, August 31, 1999. Retrieved June 22, 2007.
- ^ "The ABCs of Porn", by Tristan Taormino, The Village Voice, January 19 - January 25, 2000. Retrieved June 22, 2007.
