Group sex

Group sex is sexual behaviour involving more than two people at the same time.

Any sexual behaviour performed as part of "conventional" two-person sex can be a part of group sex, as well as a number of behaviors only possible with more than two people. In heterosexual group sex an encounter involving single female and multiple males is sometimes termed a gang-bang.

The same safer sex considerations that apply to normal sex apply here, for the same reason: any sexual partner in any kind of sexual activity may have a sexually transmitted disease, without it being obvious, either to them or others. People who have group sex tend to have higher numbers of sexual partners, and may for this reason be more likely to have STDs or to be at risk for STDs than other people who have fewer sexual partners.

Group sex occurs amongst both people who consider themselves homosexual and those who consider themselves heterosexual (though, obviously, sex involving three or more people must involve multiple members of the same gender in some capacity).

In contemporary Western culture, group sex is a common sexual fantasy, possibly encouraged by its omnipresence in pornography, but participation in it is less common need statistics . . . may have to resort to Kinsey here

Most of the more acrobatic group sex practices are generally confined to enactment for the purposes of pornography.

Multiple penetration

• One combination only found in group sex is called a spitroast, whereby one male will penetrate a female (or male) in the mouth and another man will enter the vagina or anus of the orally penetrated person.
• Another form is double penetration where two men respectively penetrate a woman's vagina and anus. Penetrating all three orifices simultaneously is also sometimes seen in pornography.
• It is also possible in rare cases for two men to penetrate a single vagina or anus simultaneously: a double vaginal penetration or double anal penetration.

These acts may also be carried out with women wearing strap-on dildos substituting for the male participants.

Bukkake

Bukkake is a group sex practice seen in pornography where a series of men take turns to ejaculate on a kneeling woman. At the end of the process, the woman usually drinks the semen. This appears to be a recent invention of the fetish pornography industry. Note that this is an potentially unsafe practice: see the bukkake article for more.

See also: orgy, trio, bisexual, swinging