Eyeball Licking Seeing Rise In Popularity
SAN DIEGO (TNA) – Most people grimace at the thought of having anything touch their eye, but some fetish enthusiasts, like 21-year-old yoga instructor Shelsea Ochoa, see it a different way.
She considers eyeball licking an ideal form of foreplay.
Scott Sorweid
Eyeball licking -- or 'oculolinctus' -- is a fetish that is seeing a rise in popularity among kinksters looking for a new way to express intimacy.
“The texture of the eye is sexy,” she explains. “It’s like escargot, something you want to linger on because it is so smooth. And also, being licked makes you feel vulnerable and exposed, one step closer to being in a naked embrace.”
This fetish, one that is little known in the U.S., is scientifically known as “oculolinctus” and it has left a few adventurous deviants wide-eyed. This comes as no surprise: The blinking reflex is so strong that in order to lick someone’s eyeball one must usually pin the person down and hold his or her eyelid open.
“You definitely feel a little helpless,” Ochoa admits. “But the nervous feeling goes away after a few times.”
However, this feeling of vulnerability is what attracted “Jackie,”* a cocktail waitress living in Los Angeles, to this unusual fetish, which she first learned about during her trip to Thailand where she met an attractive young couple from Austria.
“They started flirting with me right after we met,” Jackie says. “I didn’t know if they were swingers at first, but they were both gorgeous, and I remember just hoping to God that we’d all get drunk enough so something would happen.”
Jackie got her wish when, late into the night after several tequila sunrises and red-headed sluts, the three of them sat around a drum circle at the beach.
“The two of them started making out,” Jackie recalls. “Then the guy suddenly jumped on the girl, pinned her to the sand and really slowly started licking her eye. The girl was looking at me the whole time with these big blue eyes, like she was asking for help.”
Jackie found herself too entranced to move, however.
“I got so turned on watching them,” she says. “The girl looked completely helpless and I remember wanting to take her place.”
She soon did. A threesome ensued and from that moment on Jackie was hooked.
Dr. Connie Quinn, a psychiatrist in Hyde Park, N.Y. who specializes in sexual health, has treated patients who have eyeball-licking fetishes, and says she’s come across two varying ideologies.
“One of my cases is a couple,” Quinn explains, “who see the eyes as windows to the soul and of course the tongue is a very sexualized organ, so putting the two together for them was a way of tapping into each other’s being.”
Another of Quinn’s patients is a man who traced his eyeball-licking fetish to a particular childhood obsession that, strangely enough, had little to do with sex.
“This gentleman as a child was obsessed with marbles,” she says. “From this he developed an eye fetish, started kissing his partners’ eyes, licking the eyelid, and then eventually the actual eyeball.”
Joe Kort, a Michigan-based psychotherapist and expert on sexual fetishes, says most paraphilias arise from a childhood experience that has left some deep emotional or psychological imprint on the person.
“A fetish often eroticizes something that was previously scary,” Kort explains. “Someone who is afraid of being submissive or dominating eroticizes the feeling and that way is able to deal with it.”
On the dominating side of the eyeball-licking spectrum stand people like “Ellie Scott,” a 23-year-old sorority girl from San Francisco State, who confesses that nothing gives her the feeling of power like invading a person’s eye with her tongue.
“Eye virgins are especially fun to break in,” she says. “When it’s their first time, people are all nervous and squirmy. I love going slow, building up the tension, hearing them squeal when my tongue finally touches their eye.”
Scott, who also enjoys spanking, bondage and gangbangs, believes that fetishes are healthy ways of expressing one’s anger, aggression and other feelings that wouldn’t be acceptable otherwise.
Not everyone agrees on the health benefits of this particular fetish, though. Dr. David W. Stemely, a practicing optometrist in Carlsbad, Calif., warns that oculolinctus can lead to severe eye infections.
“You should let a dog lick his crotch,” Stemely elaborates, “and then let him lick your eyeball before you let a human being lick your eyeball.”
He explains that the human mouth has more germs and bacteria than most animals. Furthermore, if the person doing the licking has a type-one herpes infection, otherwise known as the common cold sore, the infection can spread to the cornea of the eye and could potentially cause blindness.
“Matt,” 23, a long-time eyeball licker from San Diego, claims Dr. Stemely’s warnings are exaggerated.
“I’ve been doing this for three years,” he says. “And I’m not blind and I don’t know anyone who’s gone blind or who’s had an infection because of this.”
A self-professed video game and comic book nerd, Matt says his first contact with eyeball licking came from reading Japanese comics, or manga.
“As far as sex goes,” he says, “the Japanese are into way crazier shit than us. We really ought to take a tip from them.”
Matt’s girlfriend, “Stacy,” says she shares her boyfriend’s passion for comics and Japanese fetish porn, but does not find eyeball licking as fascinating as he does.
“I liked the dressing up as comic book characters,” she says. “But when he brought up the eyeball licking thing, I was a little freaked out at first. It doesn’t feel that bad, but I just don’t find it erotic. I don’t know why he gets turned on by it.”
Nonetheless, Stacy usually grants her boyfriend’s requests to let him lick her eyeball.
“I wouldn’t want him going around licking other girls’ eyeballs,” she says.
Taking a tip from her doctor, however, Stacy has started carrying around a bottle of artificial tears for flushing.
“You should definitely flush afterwards,” Matt says. “But as long as you do that, I’m almost sure you’re OK. It would really be a shame to miss out on such a unique experience just out of fear. It’s something everybody should try.”
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* Some names have been changed for privacy reasons.
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