The last time I found myself in this particular situation was during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and I have no intention of ever being in this situation again. So I think I’m probably outside the target audience for this article. But hey, in the interests of Sex Day:
How long should you wait to have sex? Nearly 50 percent of straight couples in a new survey reported holding out one week to a month before getting it on with their partners.
What’s more, 21 percent of the couples waited up to two months and 10 percent waited up to half a year to have sex, according to the survey of 1,000 Americans and Europeans from DrEd.com. Only 18 percent of the men and women surveyed reported waiting less than a week to have sex.
Actually, I’m rather heartened by this study (here’s the original) — I thought the “can’t wait” number would be a lot higher these days. Although I’d like to see the age breakdown of the various responses, because I suspect that there’s a considerable difference thereby. Anyway, all the data is suspect because people lie like dogs when it comes to interviews about sex. What managed to arouse my ire, however, was this Clintonian paragraph:
“I know plenty of couples that did a bit of a courtship dance around sex and took the slow road,” he said. “They learned to appreciate each other, and they learned to enjoy kissing, touch, oral sex, and all of those activities that don’t get consumed by intercourse.”
For the last fucking time [sic]: oral sex is not part of the “courtship dance” — blowjobs are sex acts, despite Bill Clinton’s casual assertion that they aren’t.
And frankly, if oral sex isn’t “consumed by intercourse”, you’re not doing it correctly. That, or you’re doing it in parking lots or behind bus stops instead of in bed.
Or am I just being hopelessly old-fashioned about all this? (Wouldn’t be the first time.)
People are actually getting to KNOW and LIKE each other before boinking? Let me put on my shocked face.
Honestly, unless you’re just using the other person’s body parts as tools for masturbation (which I’m sure lots of people are) you OUGHT to get to know them, love them, and trust them implicitly before doing the dance-with-no-pants. Because frankly, if you’re not exposing yourself in much deeper ways than merely removing your clothes to the person you’re having sex with, you’re missing out and you might as well invest in a blow-up doll or battery-powered appendage.
On the other hand (where I have different fingers) I saw a meme last week that made me chuckle. A picture of Bill Clinton looking sad, the caption read “When you realize you’re the same age as Donald Trump, and he’s married to Melania, and you’re still married to Hillary”. And while I’m not a huge Trump supporter (I only voted for him based on the alternative), I’ve gotta say we now have the best looking First Lady in decades…..
Karma IS a cruel bitch, isn’t she?
Give it a few centuries, and blow jobs will replace a handshake.
Should make business lunches amusing.