英語「cunnilingus」起源自新拉丁語:女陰(cunnus)、舌(lingua)[14]。此外亦有許多不同的俚語用於代指舐陰,包括「drinking from the furry cup」(以帶毛的杯子喝飲料)[15]、「carpet munching」(嚼地毯)、「muff diving」、「tipping the velvet」(輕舔天鵝絨)、「lip service」(舌上服務);英國小說家薩拉·沃特斯曾把其筆下的其中一本小說命名為《輕舔絲絨》[16]。其次,亦可稱為他人舐陰者為「cunnilinguist」[17]。
Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen. The Marriage and Family Experience: Intimate Relationship in a Changing Society. Cengage Learning. 2010: 186 [2011-10-08]. ISBN 0-534-62425-1. Most people agree that we maintain virginity as long as we refrain from sexual (vaginal) intercourse. But occasionally we hear people speak of 'technical virginity' [...] Data indicate that 'a very significant proportion of teens ha[ve] had experience with oral sex, even if they haven't had sexual intercourse, and may think of themselves as virgins' [...] Other research, especially research looking into virginity loss, reports that 35% of virgins, defined as people who have never engaged in vaginal intercourse, have nonetheless engaged in one or more other forms of heterosexual sexual activity (e.g., oral sex, anal sex, or mutual masturbation).
Sonya S. Brady; Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher. Adolescents' Reported Consequences of Having Oral Sex Versus Vaginal Sex. Pediatrics. 2007, 119 (2): 229–236. PMID 17272611. doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1727.
"Taking Velvet public: author Sarah Waters reflects on the sensation she started by writing Tipping the Velvet, the novel that became a smash UK miniseries that's now set to conquer America." The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), 13 May 2003.
Joseph A. Flaherty, John Marcell Davis, Philip G. Janicak. Psychiatry: Diagnosis & therapy. A Lange clinical manual. Appleton & Lange. 1993: 217. ISBN 978-0-8385-1267-8. The amount of time of sexual arousal needed to reach orgasm is variable — and usually much longer — in women than in men; thus, only 20–30% of women attain a coital climax. b. Many women (70–80%) require manual clitoral stimulation...
Mah, Kenneth; Binik, Yitzchak M. The nature of human orgasm: a critical review of major trends. Clinical Psychology Review. 2001-01-07, 21 (6): 823–856. PMID 11497209. doi:10.1016/S0272-7358(00)00069-6. Women rated clitoral stimulation as at least somewhat more important than vaginal stimulation in achieving orgasm; only about 20% indicated that they did not require additional clitoral stimulation during intercourse.
Kammerer-Doak, Dorothy; Rogers, Rebecca G. Female Sexual Function and Dysfunction. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America. June 2008, 35 (2): 169–183. PMID 18486835. doi:10.1016/j.ogc.2008.03.006. Most women report the inability to achieve orgasm with vaginal intercourse and require direct clitoral stimulation ... About 20% have coital climaxes...
Rathus, Spencer A. et al. Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon: Pearson Education. 2005: 124, 226. ISBN 0-205-40615-7.
"autocunnilingus", The Complete Dictionary of Sexology, expanded ed., ed. Robert T. Francoeur et al., New York: Continuum, 1995, ISBN9780826406729, p. 49.
Jesse Bering, "So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The Contorted History of Autofellatio", in Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human, New York: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2012, ISBN9780374532925, pp. 11–16, p. 16 (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館).
Drawing, Art of Love: Nearly 100 Sex Positions and Wealth of Illustrated Material from Foreplay to Anatomy, e-book, Mobilereference.com, 2007, ISBN9781605011172, n.p. (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
Ken Plummer. Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences. Routledge. 2002: 187–191 [2013-08-24]. ISBN 1134922426. (原始內容存檔於2015-03-18). The social construction of 'sex' as vaginal intercourse affects how other forms of sexual activity are evaluated as sexually satisfying or arousing; in some cases whether an activity is seen as a sexual act at all. For example, unless a woman has been penetrated by a man's penis she is still technically a virgin even if she has had lots of sexual experience.