According to encyclopedic definition, group sex is a type of human sexual behavior that involves three or more participants in a sexual interaction at the same time.
The attitude of society towards such practice has varied in different epochs and cultures, as the issue of sex norms has always been controversial, but the majority of people would still frown upon group sex even now, despite the sexual liberation trends of the twentieth century.
Such critical views can be easily explained by the association of group sex practice with spreading of various STIs and STDs, involvement of minors in teen group sex, prevalence of group sex contacts in homosexual communities, etc. Yet this is an arguable position as sane and consensual group sex is a rather safe practice not directly connected with the above concerns.
Transmission of venereal diseases during group sex practice can be prevented with the help of various means, such as condoms, dental dams for protected oral sex, rubber gloves, numerous sex toys such as dildos substituting penile-vaginal or penile-anal penetration, etc. A number of group sex practitioners prefer to undergo special tests prior to engaging in relationship and thus ensuring better group sex safety. The so called "safer group sex parties" are also aimed at reducing health risks. During such parties, partners would have non-penetrative sex confining to mutual masturbation, frottage, humping, boobjobs, handjobs, footjobs, etc. Fingering, fisting and toying would also increase group sex safety.
As for the early exposure of minors to sexual activity, the importance of group sex here is also doubtful. It is not because some adults choose to practice group sex that teens get involved into it, too. Rather, the wide dissemination of sex-related information in the media, including television and the Internet as well as general popularization of sexually-active behavior in the modern culture are more likely to influence the formation of ideas about sex in teens. Numerous Internet sites offer an astonishing variety of pornographic resources with group sex movies, erotic stories and drawings that are usually available for any user disregarding their age or legal restrictions of the country they live in. Moreover, many people create their personal profiles to be filled with photos and other private data that will help find new partners for cyber or real-life relationship. More likely reasons for participation in amateur group sex by teens include acting in the state of alcoholic or drug intoxication, being led by desire to try something new and forbidden or following the herd instinct.
What concerns group sex between homosexual partners, we can also put a question mark near the statement that gay group sex or lesbian group sex takes place more often than similar practice between straight-oriented partners.
Many people would also claim that group sex is humiliating and abusive in its nature, being similar to group rape. However, some persons deliberately go for such humiliation as they find it very rousing and pleasant. Such practices as bdsm for example include domination and submission role play that brings pleasure to its participants through torturing, abusing and pain-infliction.
Thus, group sex moral is is a disputable matter, just like any other kind of sexual activity, but as long as it does not harm people around, everybody is free to set one's own boundaries and choose the way to live one's sexual life.
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