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Feminist Blogs Afire Over Oral Sex Debate

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Posted on Jun 20, 2006

Salon wittily wades through a debate raging in the feminist blogosphere over whether the act of a woman performing oral sex on a man is inherently demeaning. It’s reg req’d for Salon, but Pandagon sums up most of the argument on her free site.


Salon:

How did the feminist blogs get into a raging debate about blow jobs, feminism, and the patriarchy?

Well, funny story. Heh heh heh. See, best I can tell, Twisty at I Blame the Patriarchy kicked it off by arguing, in response to a post on One Good Thing advising a letter-writer on how not to gag while administering oral sex, that “no woman, since the dawn of the patriarchal co-option of human sexuality, has ever actually enjoyed this submissive sexbot drudgery. There’s a reason that deep-throating a funk-filled bratwurst makes a person retch.* (*Reason, it’s fucking gross.)” Twisty got 230 responses, many of them from women who argued that giving head is an empowering act. And so she followed up, sarcastically opining that she is “chastened.” “I’d forgotten that when it comes to sex, it is the duty of the radical feminist to shut the fuck up,” Twisty wrote. “Sex, which, along with religion…is sacrosanct territory. It is anti-feminist to point out the ideological problems with certain patriarchal sexbot traditions because so many women enjoy patriarchal sexbot traditions…Like Germaine Greer always says, if you wanna nail your nutsack to a breadboard and call it sex, it’s A-OK with me!...It is a well-known fact that most women spring from their beds every morning singing, ‘O I hope I can blow some dude today!’” This post garnered 93 responses.

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By Doc, May 4, 2012 at 9:06 pm Link to this comment
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It’s obvious that the reasons behind multiple wives is buried in having a host of wives to choose from to be or perform her “best” attribute. Still goes on today in many countries. I for one feel one wife at a time is more than enough after the many centuries of them believing they are each sitting on the only pot of gold you may withdraw from. Not true.
The best relationships, bar none, are based in true, honest, fulfilling, rewarding, awesome, physical contact.
You will never find a couple, married or not, that satisfy each other totally, without abuse of any kind, that have problems in life that they do not work through and resolve. Over the top sex and orgasms that blow ones minds always over rule stupidity in human beings actions. It’s a calming of the spirit, a connection of every cell that the two of them have into one, a feeling they do not want to ever lose, so they try harder in the other areas of the relationship. It’s just the typical risk reward experiences we all go through such as being burned by the cook top. Once that happens you kinda steer clear of the dam thing next time, correct?
Sex is the most intimate relationship there is outside of your relationship with your God.
Adam and Eve ran around the Garden of Eden for who knows how many years, centuries or millennium like a couple of naked hippies enjoying everything and each other without exception. That is until she screwed the pooch and ate from the forbidden fruit we are told. So much for having a perfect existence?
So God made this for us to enjoy. If that’s the case and it seems to be accurate that God gave us this ability and in the Garden of Eden there were no children, He must have intended it to be a fulfilling experience for Adam and Eve.
Why modern day women don’t enjoy their bodies with their mates, without limits or exceptions, and the same with men and their mates is beyond any common sense answer.
Doc

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By stephanie, January 27, 2012 at 12:28 am Link to this comment
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oral sex is only demeaning if givin because of obligation. for example, i love my husband and i enjoy pleasuring him. he also loves to give me oral pleasure. giving him a blowjob can even be very intimate.  no i do not want to give some random guy felatio. but whats that got to do with the sex act itself? nothing.

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