Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!rutgers!caip!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!oddjob!apak From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (apak) Newsgroups: soc.singles Subject: Eating People Is Wrong Message-ID: <1504@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 23:44:19 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.1504 Posted: Wed Oct 1 23:44:19 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 08:10:51 EDT Reply-To: apak@oddjob.UUCP (apak) Distribution: na Organization: Aesthetes and Poets Against Karate Lines: 29 Lynn Gold asked where oral sex came from, and why. I haven't a clue, but I would point out that it's an extremely American phenomenon. All the jokes I've ever seen/heard about it have been from Americans. All the references to heterosexual oral sex I've ever read in literature have been by American authors, except one play by Joe Orton, of speak-your-weight machines singing the Hallelujah chorus fame. (There will now follow twenty-seven postings documenting references to oral sex in Jane Austen, Beatrix Potter and Marcel Proust, fourteen cross-postings to net.jokes claiming that the poster thought Fellatio was a character in Twelfth Night until s/he discovered Smirnoff, and one posting informing me that Joe Orton is American.) Nearly all of the people I've talked to about oral sex have been American. A large fraction of the Supreme Court rulings I've read about oral sex have been American. Am I making my point clear here? If god had meant us to have oral sex, he would have existed. QED. apak "Tonight we will be examining one of the great questions debated throughout the ages: Is there life after death? And with us in the studio to discuss the issue are four dead people ...." -- ihnp4!oddjob!apak | oddjob!apak@lbl-csam.arpa oddjob!apak@UChicago.bitnet This is not a pipe apak%uk.ac.cambridge.phoenix@ucl-cs.arpa