Editing 69 (sex position) (section)

==History==
[[File:Two men in unusual mutual oral sex position.jpg|thumb|Indian art depicting two men performing 69 in a complicated position]]
The term ''sixty-nine'' or ''soixante-neuf'' for mutual simultaneous oral-genital stimulation is an English translation of the euphemistic French term, "''soixante-neuf''."{{r|collins}}  The term "''soixante-neuf''" has not been traced any earlier than the ''Whore's Catechism''s published in the 1790s in France, usually attributed to the early leader of the French Revolution, Mlle. [[Théroigne de Méricourt]].<ref>Legman 1969, p. 289</ref>

"The earliest unequivocal representation of the sixty-nine appears to be that on an oil-lamp preserved in the [[Munich]] Museum ([[Deutsches Museum]]), and first reproduced in Dr. Gaston Vorberg's ... portfolio, ''Die Erotik der Antiken in Kleinkunst und Keramik'' (Munich, 1921) plate 58, showing the woman lying on top of the man. Dr. Vorberg gives this ... to be of the period of the Roman Caesars ... . However, another oil-lamp of the same kind, showing the sixty-nine almost identically ... is more recently reproduced as a full-color plate, in Prof. [[Jean Marcadé]]'s ''Eros Kalos'' (English-language edition, [[Geneva]] : Nagel, 1965), facing page 58, in ... lamps preserved in the [[Heraklion Archaeological Museum|Heracleion Museum]] in [[Greece]]."<ref>Legman 1969, p. 290</ref>

"A [[Hindu]] temple-sculpture from the sacred caverns of the island of [[Elephanta Island|Elephanta]], near [[Mumbai]] in [[India]], showing this position with the man actually standing, and holding the woman hanging down in this from his shoulders, was ... brought to England in the late eighteenth century ... . ... this sculptured fragment ... is both discussed and illustrated in [[Richard Payne Knight]]'s ''A Discourse on the Worship of [[Priapus]]'', privately issued for the [[Dilettanti Society]] of London in 1786 ... . The illustration in question is a detail engraving given in Payne Knight's plate XI; and the full form of this sculptured group is ... given as plate XXIV."<ref>Legman 1969, p. 301</ref>

The ''[[Kama Sutra]]'' mentions this sex position, albeit by a different name: "When a man and woman lie down in an inverted order, i.e. with the head of the one towards the feet of the other and carry on [mouth] congress, it is called the 'congress of a crow'."<ref>{{Cite web
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=== Internet meme ===
In reference to the sex position, "69" has become an [[internet meme]], where users will respond to any occurrence of the number with the word "nice" and draw specific attention to it.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} This means to sarcastically imply that the reference to the sex position was intentional. Because of its association with the sex position and resulting meme, "69" has become known as "the sex number" in these communities,<ref name="Feldman 2016">{{cite web|last=Feldman|first=Brian|date=2016-06-09|title=Why 69 Is the Internet's Coolest Number (Sex)|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/why-69-is-the-internets-coolest-number-sex.html|access-date=2020-09-04|website=Intelligencer}}</ref> similar to the number [[420 (cannabis culture)|420]], which is known as "the weed number."<ref>{{cite news|title=Why is 420 associated with marijuana? The weed number explained|newspaper=The Indianapolis Star|date=April 20, 2023|via=Yahoo! News|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-420-associated-marijuana-weed-080007881.html|type=video slideshow|access-date=May 30, 2024}}</ref>