A foursome is a form of

group sex Group sex is Human sexual activity, sexual behavior involving more than two participants. Participants in group sex can be of any sexual orientation or gender. Any form of Human sexual activity, sexual activity can be adopted to involve more th ...

involving four people of any gender combination.

Types of foursomes

The level of sexual activity among the four members may vary greatly. Other foursomes may involve some same sex contact, and some foursomes actively involve all four members.

Wife Swapping

Wife swapping involves two couples, usually both married heterosexual pairs, where each man ''swaps'' his wife for the other, and has sexual intercourse with her. There is usually no sexual contact between the two wives or the two husbands.

Soft Swinging

Soft swinging involves two couples, where either one couple has a

voyeuristic Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature. The term comes from the French ''voir'' which means "to see". A ...

role watching the other have sex, or the couples each have sex but with no sexual contact between the two pairs.

Gang bangs

A gang bang involves three (or more) people having sex with a fourth successively. This usually occurs with men penetrating women, but can equally apply to homosexual acts, or women penetrating men using

strap-on dildo A strap-on dildo (also strap-on) is a dildo designed to be worn, usually with a harness, during sexual activity. Harnesses and dildos are made in a wide variety of styles, with variations in how the harness fits the wearer, how the dildo attac ...

Airtight seal

The ''airtight seal'' involves vaginal sex and

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performed on a woman by two men in a

double penetration Double penetration (sometimes called DP for short) is a sexual practice that consists of a person being simultaneously penetrated either in multiple orifices or in a single orifice by multiple body parts or other objects. Most commonly, it refers ...

, while the woman performs

fellatio Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act involving a person stimulating the penis of another person by using the mouth, throat, or both. Oral stimulation of the scrotu ...

on a third man.

Quads

A quad is a

romantic relationship Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions. The ''Wiley Blackwell Encycl ...

involving four people. It is most commonly used to describe a love relationship between two couples where it takes the form of a

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, in which all four people have a love relationship with each other. While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with two others, it usually implies that each of the four people has some kind of sexual relationship to the other three. The relationships are normally friendships, though romantic. Addition of

bisexual Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females, or to more than one gender. It may also be defined to include romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, whic ...

homosexual Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to pe ...

characters adds many possible combinations of sexes, and of romantic and sexual interactions.

Gallery

Image:Édouard-Henri Avril (30).jpg, Painting by

Édouard-Henri Avril Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. His career saw collaboration with influential people like Octave Uzanne ...

: two women and two men having a foursome. Image:Gamiani.jpg, Painting by

Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007 ...

of three women and a man having a foursome.

References

External links

Relationship Types: Foursomes
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