Short answers, pulled from the story.
In ancient Rome, oral sex served as a calculated instrument of social dominance and punishment rather than private pleasure. The Latin verbs irrumare and fellare encoded power dynamics where the receiver exercised control and the performer suffered humiliation. This practice was sometimes used as punishment and practitioners were often deemed to have foul breath and unwelcome at dinner tables.
Research from Malmö University's Faculty of Odontology in 2005 found that 36 percent of oral cancer patients had human papillomavirus compared to only 1 percent of the healthy control group. The transmission of HPV through oral sex can significantly increase the risk of throat cancer, with those having more than five oral sex partners facing a 250 percent increased risk.
A 2005 report from the National Center for Health Statistics found that over half of teenagers in the United States had engaged in oral sex, leading to the phenomenon of technical virginity. This term describes individuals who maintain their virginity by avoiding penile-vaginal intercourse while engaging in other sexual acts including oral sex.
Oral sex is observed across the animal kingdom including fruit bats and fish from the genus Corydoras. In fruit bats females lick males to extend copulation duration while some fish reproduce orally with sperm released into the female mouth to fertilize eggs.
Slang terms such as plate emerged from the gay slang language of Polari in the 1960s while other terms like muff diving and carpet munching are common in lesbian culture. The term Egyptian rape dates back to the Crusades when Mamluks were alleged to force their Christian captives to perform oral sex.