No Oral Sex for Us Girls
So Newsweek publishes a hand-wringing article about how our children need to be asked politely not to have oral sex. The author's a rabbi, so as the follower of a god who doesn't like pleasure unless it's tightly controlled, he lives by the credo that only certain kinds of erotic acts are ok.
Well yes fine, welcome to organized religion. But what amazes me is that "oral sex" as referred to in the article is defined solely as something that girls give boys. There's simply no mention of the real problem here, which is that when we say "sex," we mean something boys and men get and enjoy. Under this rubric, women, it seems, are never the recipients.
Such willful ignorance reminds me of why Queen Victoria would not legislate against lesbianism. She said it didn't exist.
I agree with Mr Rabbi Guy that girls should not be encouraged to go down on boys unless they fully understand the limitations of the return on their investment. No one likes exploitation, at least no one I like. The fact is though that some of us actually enjoy giving oral sex, and I guess he doesn't consider there's a pleasurable motivation to kneel down and blow because he represents the anti-enjoyment faction of our culture. Whether you do it because you're a victim or because you like it, you still should not do it (unless you're married, but then you won't want to. You know the old joke, right? What's the difference between your wife and your job? After 10 years, your job still sucks).
But even considering the Rabbi's pompous-ass daddy patriarch position, it's still frightening that he does not even realize or care that there's no reciprocity in these incidents. The clit's just a gaping absence in this dude's world. (Poor Mrs Rabbi Gellman!) As a feminist, I long for the day when the big moral crisis in a tired news magazine like this one is the wave of cunnilingus sweeping across our campuses--or at least outrage at the lack thereof.
And people tell me we are "equal." Hardy har har.
