People are always looking for ways to improve their sex lives.

Extreme dentistry usually isn't one of them.

But, as a radical new multimedia project by artist and dentist Kuang-Yi Ku suggests, it definitely should be.

Ku is the mastermind behind the Fellatio Modification Project, a provocative art concept which asserts that drastic dentistry is the solution to regrettable sexual mishap, namely, the bane of shitty oral sex.

Insufficient mouth size, rough oral texture, a tongue that can't lap at your cervix — these are all bad head problems Ku's invented solves for. To do it, he's proposed a series of Frankenstein-eqsue oral modifications meant to enhance sexual pleasure during the deed. From a loftier, more intellectual perspective, these modifications are meant to explore the interrelations of sex, technology, humanity, and society during the pursuit of physical pleasure, but … they're not just art for art's sake. They're practical. They're designed for action … and they're meant to enhance the pleasure of another person, not the wearer.

Take the “Bird Beak Clone,” for example, an extreme theoretical surgery that would lengthen the human mouth in order to accommodate larger penis size, thereby 86-ing any need for the gag reflex and increasing pleasure by allowing the entire penis to be swallowed.

Then there’s the “Male Masturabtion Cup Mouth,” a modified orthodontic retainer outfitted with a series of textured bumps and ridges designed to improve penile pleasure. In Ku’s mad-scientist brain, this dick-sucking retainer would eventually give way to a surgical implant of real embossed soft tissue on the upper palate, creating a permanent modification to the mouth.

And for those more inclined toward a mouthful of pussy or butt, there’s the Cunnlingus/Annilingus Modification Project, wherein the length of the tongue is extended and the texture is changed so it can be used for penetration. Stage 1 materializes as a wearable device, while Stage 2 investigates the possibility of oral surgery for tongue elongation and tongue texture transformation. Sexy!

I mean damn. 

… Are you also wondering how Ku came up with this right now? I was, so I asked him.

After receiving his D.D.S (Doctor of Dental Surgery), Ku received multidisciplinary mentorship from three people with very different backgrounds: a biomaterial scientist, a visual artist, and a gender study theorist, a trio which completely remodeled his way of thinking about the practice of dentistry.

Not only could it be used for its traditional purpose —he realized —it could be used for art.

And pleasure. 

“I discovered that in the field of dentistry, the oral cavity is commonly described as having only three functions; aesthetics, pronunciation, and mastication … but there is the fourth function: sex, which is left unspoken and undiscussed on the textbook of dentistry,” he says.

Well, that was a problem he wanted to solve.

With this in mind, Ku imagined a future utopia where people permanently modify their bodies for sexual improvement. Out of that fever dream came the idea for the Fellatio Modification Project, a series of semi-insane body enhancements through dental technology and tissue engineering for the sole purpose of better head.

Yet, while Ku’s ideas are safely relegated to the realm of art, and mercifully distant from the pages of dental textbooks, they still aren’t the easiest to take — they’re challenging. For one, their extremity and outward perceptibility by others demands that the wearer be seen not just as a person, but as a vehicle for pleasure. In a society where we still consider privately conducted oral sex to be taboo, that outward representation of the human body as a fuck object is taboo on methy-steroids. It's a big statement to say that a body part exists for the sake of orgasm — especially a non-reproductive one like the mouth — which recontextualizes the canvas of the human body as we know it.

Ku’s proposed dental makeovers also confront the idea of body modification itself — people mutilate their bodies  through plastic all day long for the purposes aesthetics, of but rarely for sexual improvement. Interestingly, Ku’s project asks people to consider that self-improvement may not always mean a perfect body, but a functional one.

“For me, my project is a kind of hacking of the patriarchal medical system, because medicine always contains a standard of a perfect, healthy and clean body,” he explains. “In ‘Bird Beak Clone’ I show a special subculture group who have the sexual hobby of oral sex addiction and want to modify their mouth to be more suitable for deep throat oral sex. In this context, people just show their sex hobby on their appearance. They use medical technology to transform their body to a erotic, sexual and even dirty body. It is a way to show people’s queer spirit and to against the mainstream standard of a perfect body and a clean sexual preference.”

“In my projects, I am trying to let the audience to experience a possible future which is affected by some technology and to re-think the relation between humans and society,” he says. “In the context of sex-related future, I want to build up a fictional world where sex may not be a taboo anymore. In the same time, I also want to construct a crazy future scenario that might make some conservative people feel uncomfortable because of the erotic stories. However, for me it is a good thing that my project can start a debate in any media or public. Sometimes, I just think we should discuss the sex-related issues more instead of prohibiting it.”

But … we don’t. Even in the supposed Land of the Free, we're tight-lipped about sexuality and what we want out of it. We lack the tools to describe and the right audience to drink it in. The sheer fact that Ku saw oral sex as something that needed improvement — drastic improvement — testifies to how little we actually talk about these things with each other.

These are exactly the kinds of discussions Ku hopes to spark with his work, though.

“I think it’s really difficult to talk about sex, especially in public,” he says. “However, my project seems to be creating a specific circumstance to let people to communicate about sexual pleasure.”

And communicate they are. Ku says the provocative conversations his work has has ignited has inspired viewers to start learning things about each other, a rarity in today's grab-n-go hookup culture were rapidity and convenience trumps thoughtful sexuality and sexual improvement. They’re talking about what they like and don’t like; what feels good and what doesn’t. They're telling stories of oral sex. And they're revealing themselves as people with certain sexual inclinations.

Ku is even learning things from them.

“After some conversation with audiences, I found out every individual person has their own thinking about their sexual pleasure from oral sex,” he tells me. “For example, some people think that the texture on my design is too hard, but some  people think it’s too soft. So it seems there is no an universal standard of sexual pleasure in oral sex. There is a diversity of pleasure.”

Of course, not everyone takes the conversational topic of sexual cosmetic dentistry as lightly.

Kuangi-Yi’s project caused a ruckus in his native country of Taiwan, where a particular politician had a very public conniption over providing him with governmental art grant funds. He even went on a political TV talk show to call attention to the injustice and to blame The Fellatio Modification Project for corrupting the virgin eyes of the Taiwanese people.

“He didn’t think that the government should put money on this kind of sexual project,” Kuang-Yi says. “However, I still think it is kind of interesting, because I successfully created an experimental environment to let people start to debate and re-think what is wrong and what is right.”

Well, debate received.

… But don't expect debate about Ku's work to stop there. Currently, he’s working on several new, equally boundary-pushing projects which are related to what he calls “Animal Sex Right,” or an exploration of whether humans have the right to castrate our pets for our own benefit.

“What if we didn’t do that?” he asks. “How would we solve the sexual problem of pets?”

One solution he envisions is “Pet’s Pettings” a dating app that allows pets to find sexual partners, probing their owners to imagine the possible future scenario of being involved in their pet’s sex lives.

The other is “Dolphin Eroticarium,” an ocean park inspired by the legendary sexuality of dolphins. It’s basically just a place that provides sexual services for dolphins. It’s filled with a bunch of dolphin sex toys.

Man, I love this guy.

For more of Ku's work and to see what kind of insane psycho-sexual inventions he thinks of next, you can follow him here.