Intercrural sex, also known as interfemoral sex, is a type of outercourse, or non-penetrative sex, in which one partner places his penis between the other partner's thighs (often with lubrication), and thrusts to create friction.
It may be practised as a way of avoiding penetrative sex. The sex education and sexual experimentation of adolescents and children may feature or have featured intercrural sex in the interests of avoiding pregnancy and preserving virginity. At least one organization is promoting it as a safer alternative to anal sex between gay men.
Intercrural intercourse is not, however, merely a means of avoiding unwanted consequences of penetration for all who practice it; according to his biographer Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde was introduced to intercrural sex by Robert Baldwin Ross, Wilde being unattracted by the idea of anal sex.
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