Body worship

Body worship is any practice of physically revering a part of another person's body, and is usually done as a submissive act in the context of BDSM.[1] Typical kinds of body worship include worship of the penis, the vagina, the breasts, the buttocks, or muscles.

Usually prostrate to reinforce his or her sense of inferiority, a sub generally licks, kisses and sucks his or her dominant's body part, and is not allowed to touch it in a more conventional way. This may be humiliating to the submissive partner. Alternatively, body worship can be performed because the worshipper is in awe of a body part and wishes to praise that beauty, with less emphasis on any power differential.

Although the worshipped partner may provide encouragement, verbally or by spanking, he or she typically receives body worship more or less passively and aloofly. Exceptions include facesitting and smothering, wherein the worshipped partner takes a more aggressive approach.

Gay practitioners may emphasize the differences (such as muscle tone, body fat, or hairlessness) between the worshiper's undesirable body and the worshipped partner's desirable body.

Subsets

Penis worship generally describes a sexual obsession of a submissive with his or her dominant partner's penis, or any sexual game in which a submissive is motivated by a real or pretended attraction to his or her partner's penis. Some consider such worship a particularly degrading form of domination and it will usually involve the submissive partner kneeling or in another lowly position. In particular, facesitting or smothering may be applied to emphasize the dominant's control over the submissive. A queening stool may also facilitate this activity.

Similarly, vagina worship describes a sexual fascination with female genitals. The submissive may kiss or lick the vagina and/or anus of the dominant partner. Facesitting or smothering may be practiced, and a queening stool may be used.

See also

• Boot worship
• Buttock fetishism
• Breast fetishism
• Foot fetishism
• Hand fetishism
• Muscle worship
• Partialism
• Phallus
• Body worship is a common theme in the work of Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa.

References

1. Paul Baker (2002). Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. Continuum.