Primal Nostalgia

There is nothing more feminine than a blowob. You naked on your knees. Your guy with his hand resting on the back of your head. A really good blowjob confirms some primal nostalgia. It puts the world in balance.

Chloe Thurow

Is there such a thing as a politically correct blowjob?

A feminist posed the question back in the ’90s. She acknowledged that for a man “having a woman on her knees” is “the penultimate erotic charge.” The charge derives from the “intensely erotic phallic-power associations engendered by the sight of a kneeling woman catering enthusiastically to [his] needs.” This is vexing for a feminist. One academic writes, “Some [females] agonize whether they should agree to perform blowjobs in a kneeling position (or do that other submissive stuff lots of guys seem to love) because complying means assuming blatantly servile postures….” Furthermore, “a fair number of them…get their own erotic buzz from performing the handmaiden role….”

Rhonda was an avowed feminist. She was a single mom by choice. The litanies of postmodern progressivism readily fell from her lips. Yet she willingly dropped to her knees in adoration of the “divine masculine” and paid obeisance with her pretty little mouth. Her technique was exquisite, and it felt good. There was more to it than the raw physical sensations, though. She had animated my dark masculine energy. The sight of Rhonda kneeling in front of me, taking me in her mouth, gave me an almost indescribable feeling of power. Having a woman service me seemed to confirm the natural order of the universe.

Rhonda never articulated why she loved to give head, but identifying as a “sex positive” feminist, she would probably justify any consensual sexual act as consistent with her ideology. I would argue that a blowjob is inherently submissive. Oral sex is by its nature transgressive. As cultural historian Thierry Leguay observes, “Fellatio sexualizes the mouth, makes the mouth a sexual organ in and of itself.” The mouth, which is “an organ of the spoken word,” is rendered inarticulate. “Fellatio, in this light, sullies the mouth.” The act itself, however arousing it may be for the one who performs it, can involve considerable discomfort. As Samantha on Sex and the City noted, “They don’t call it a job for nothing.” Telling a woman to “Get on your knees” shatters any pretense to a forced egalitarianism.

So, no, there is no politically correct blowjob.

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