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Scanner Roundtable: Is Oral Sex Overrated?

Posted by Emily Farris

 

According to John DeVore, over at The Frisky, it is.

It is surprising to us that he actually opens his story with the line "Blow jobs are overrated," because we've never come across a man who didn't love them, or at least pretend to love them.... oh, sort-of like we've totally pretended to looooove so many of the lukewarm oral sex acts that have been performed on us! But we see it this way: if you're sleeping with someone you have no intention of being in a relationship with, while you might technically owe it to the rest of womankind to tell the guy what he could do better next time, there's really no point in putting out his fire.

But back to blow jobs: we'd like to think—and have been told—we are particularly skilled at such things, but we would imagine that to most men any wet mouth on your hard penis is a wet mouth on your hard penis which is, "like totally amazing," right? Right?

Can a bad blow job be equated to cold pizza (a blow job is a blow job is a blow job, sometimes they're just better one way than another) or should everyone in the world go back to Oral Sex 101?

To Devore, though, skill is irrelevant. 

"Every woman I have dated has come to the table with her own trademarked methods: some of them the result of experience, some of them experiments to be tossed aside or added to their internal, carnal repertoire. It’s hilarious and utterly endearing. They’ve shown off double-fist techniques, road-tested tongue twirls, tried different rhythms. Some ignore the testicles, some are all about them. I knew a chick who sincerely loved to give head. Her choreography was a well-timed ballet of strokes, deep-throating, tickling, and unparalleled tongue acrobatics. You know that trashy trick when a woman ties a cherry stem into a knot with her mouth? This woman could eat a ball of paper and spit out an origami swan.

"I am not criticizing motives here. It is good, and it is right to want to please the person you’re hooking up with. I think men have become more aggressive about giving women head because we’re tired of not being able to satisfy you with penetrative sex. We want to get you off. Nothing is hotter in the known universe than being able to give a woman an eyeball-spinning orgasm. I’m not a jerk about receiving; as a pre-game trifle, it can be fun. But I keep returning to the idea that it is strangely impersonal. There’s not enough give and take, back and forth, and the sweaty exchange of human energies is the entire point, the fun of it all."

Call us old-fashioned, but we sort-of agree with DeVore. As we've told too many people after too many cocktails too many times "We'd I'd rather be fucked any day." 

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totalblamblam said:

I've been with a good deal of men, mostly skinny, vainglorious hipster-types, but I've only had two enjoyable oral sex experiences: one with a lesbian, and one with a man in his 40's.

The woman was far better, and, though I am not particularly interested in women sexually (as with most heterosexual women, there are a few that I would definitely deviate for), I do think that every straight girl should (if given the opportunity) sleep with a lesbian, just to see what they are missing.

January 2, 2009 5:43 PM

biff said:

That's something to think about, totalblamblam. I've never been that impressed with blow jobs, but then, I've never been blown by a gay man. It would probably make all the difference.  Just when I think my New Year's Resolutions are complete, I get one more thing to do this year. Thanks, tbb

January 2, 2009 8:04 PM

JCF said:

I'm a guy.  Think of oral sex as not an end to itself, just another piece of your repertoire.  Blow jobs usually don't feel as good as other activities, and they're not as exciting, but when you haven't had one in a while, you kinda miss them.  They're also easier to perform in "public places" than other sexual acts, as only one of you has to get only partly undressed.

January 2, 2009 8:11 PM

T said:

If there isn't enough connection or give and take in your oral sex experiences, ur doin it wrong!

Maybe Oral Sex 101 is in order...

January 3, 2009 3:37 AM

sff said:

My last bf was resistant to bj's, much in the same way I'm difficult to satisfy orally. (I was the first to get him off since a couple of teenage experiences, he was the second to get me off.) Both being pretty experienced, we compared notes and decided that head is usually mediocre foreplay. The extremely rare times chemistry and technique pay off, oral orgasm, especially 69, is unlike anything else.  

January 4, 2009 6:28 AM

LydiaSarah said:

Agreed, T. Oral can be very intimate and communicative when done right.

January 4, 2009 2:06 PM

nortiman said:

BJs are an art and not many are proficient at it. If a woman isn't good at it, I'd rather fuck a pussy any day.

January 4, 2009 8:06 PM

bobb88 said:

My favorite orgasms, both giving and receiving, have been from oral.  

January 5, 2009 11:39 AM

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Colleen Kane has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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