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Fisting, or fist fucking (FF), means placing or attempting to place the whole hand, or even two hands, into the rectum or vagina. The term is a slight misnomer, for the hand is only formed into a fist, if at all, once it is fully inserted, a process that requires a great deal of gentleness, care and patience. 'Fist fucking' implies moving the fist repeatedly in and out of the orifice, but this is better known as punch fucking, a potentially highly dangerous activity requiring advanced technique and consequently relatively rare. The hanky code for fisting is red.

For the moment this factsheet covers only male anal fisting in detail. Female anal fisting is basically the same but there is no prostate to stimulate and since women's bodies tend to be smaller, the size of hand they can take will be generally smaller too. Special hygiene precautions should be taken to ensure hands that have been up the anus are not then put up the vagina without being properly cleaned. Female vaginal fisting is in certain respects easier than anal fisting since the opening to the vagina is larger, but the space behind is more enclosed, the sensations are very different and there are other safety considerations too -- the two techniques are not really comparable.

There is some debate about whether fisting counts as SM. Certainly it is very difficult (and dangerous) to play fisting as a pain game, and although it looks very dominant-submissive an activity from the outside, it requires great cooperation by both parties. In the circles of fisting enthusiasts, participants are usually expected to be capable of taking either the insertive or the receptive role, and although there is considerable overlap between fisters and those into more typical SM games, fisting has aficianados all of its own.

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