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Revision as of 14:01, 30 May 2003 by Camembert (talk | contribs) (i don't see a reason for removing this, so putting it back)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Fisting is usually defined by dictionaries as the act of clenching of the hand into a fist, or of grasping or striking with the fist. However, these usages are not common in practice, due to their possible confusion with a sexual behaviour which also involves the fist, and which this article will discuss. In this sense, fisting involves inserting a hand into a vagina (vaginal fisting) or anus (anal fisting or handballing).
Vaginal Fisting
Vaginal fisting can be performed by both lesbian and heterosexual couples, and some women with very flexible bodies and wrists can do it to themselves.
Fisting is not as impossible as it first seems to some people. In the first place, it is simply an extension of genital manipulation and follows somewhat naturally from the woman enjoying having her partner masturbate her. An exercise recommended to couples who are preparing to give birth, perineal massage, often results in fisting.
It was exposed to wider public knowledge in a non-explicit scene of the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy.
Handballing
Handballing is a kind of anal sex that involves inserting a hand into the anus. It is mostly practiced by homosexual men. Anal manipulation by hand need not involve insertion of the entire hand.
Often, the hand is covered with a nitrile (not latex) glove, and is lubricated with a heavy vegetable grease. Sometimes the bottom uses "poppers" (amyl nitrite) as a muscle relaxant when the process is begun.
One of the results of anal fisting is massage of the prostate gland incidental to the hand insertion.