Saturday, 15 May 2010

Oral fixation

A hot random poked me on Facebook. I showed his profile to Aishah through MSN and her response was, "Hot, like totally lickable. Totally your type June." I could only LOL because I know exactly what she was implying. My friends, including I myself, have just discovered that I have a need for an oral fixation. It all became evident after my recent pole licking activity when I was tipsy. My photos of last Wednesday is proof. I had my tongue sticking out in a fair number of them and yes, including me licking the damn lamp post. I rarely, if ever, stick my tongue out in photographs but I don't actually have to be drunk to be licking something or doing something orally related (please don't think of oral sex as I say this).



I enjoy sticking stationeries in my mouth - the end of a pen or highlighter, a plastic ruler or protractor, the edge of my calculator, loose staples, basically anything but erasers. I'll be sucking on a spoon if I have one inside my empty mug or I could also chewing on my water bottle cap when I am bored. So before you borrow or lend anything to me, think twice sometimes. I've unconsciously stuck someone else's pencil into my mouth one too many times (and later returning it without letting them know LOL). According to Aishah, I am stuck in what is known as a Freud Oral Phase. Puzzled by what the hell that is, I consulted Google. The returned results were shocking and at the same time, too hilarious.

"An oral fixation is a fixation in the oral stage of development manifested by an obsession with stimulating the mouth first described by Sigmund Freud, who thought infants are naturally and adaptively in an oral stage, but if weaned too early or too late, may fail to resolve the conflicts of this stage and develop a maladaptive oral fixation. In later life, these people may constantly "hunger" for activities involving the mouth.

A child who is not fed enough (neglected) or is fed too much (over-protected) may become orally fixated as an adult. It is believed that fixation in the oral stage may have one of two effects. If the child was underfed or neglected, he/she may become orally dependent and obsessed with achieving the oral stimulation of which he was deprived, learning to manipulate others to fulfill his needs rather than maturing to independence. This child may grow up to become fixated with giving oral sex to other people regardless of gender and sexual preferences. The overly indulged child may resist growing up and try to return to that state of dependency through crying, acting helpless, demanding satisfaction, and being "needy."

Oral fixations are considered to contribute to over-eating, being overly talkative, smoking addictions, overindulging in sugar, chewing on straws and toothpicks, and even alcoholism (known as "oral dependent" qualities). Other symptoms include a sarcastic or "biting" personality (known as "oral sadistic" qualities). Another indicator is constant nail biting, putting fingers in the mouth as well as biting any future sexual partners they may have. The Freudian oral stage of development is not necessarily in conflict with evidence across the mammalian spectrum that body part sucking, including thumbsucking or the sucking of body parts of adjacent animals, and is associated with maternal deprivation or premature weaning in the exterior gestational period."

WTF. That said, I'm rather pleased to be stuck in the Oral phase because the Anal, Phallic, Latency or Genital stages don't sound any better. And for your sake, I hope you're not stuck in the Latency or Genital stage because then, you'll be a very, very sexually unfulfilled person and I won't have enough sympathy for you LOL.