A Guide to Highbrow Oral Sex Writing and Reportage

"The oral-sex craze—and in particular girls' insistence that blowjobs 'aren't sex'—has often been blamed on Bill Clinton and his semantic calisthenics during the Kenneth Starr investigation. But even if teen girls were looking to the White House for personal guidance, was it really Bubba they were trying to emulate? Girls' private lives are always much more influenced by First Daughters, or even First Ladies, than they are by any pasty politico." - Are You There God? It's Me, Monica, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, January 2006. [via Powells]

"The idea that a blowjob is a dirty, unsavory chore persists. For some women, they're used as an out when she doesn't want to have sex (or as household quid pro quo: 'If you take out the garbage, I'll give you a bj')."- Long Live Blowjob Nation, by Rachel Kramer Bussell, The Village Voice, April 21, 2006.

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