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Oral sex is about as ordinary as sex gets, yet English has spent four hundred years avoiding a plain name for it. This book follows fellatio from the ancient world to the Clinton deposition room, by way of sexology, teenage life, pornography and feminism.
What it finds is that habits change quickly while meaning lags well behind. Someone can do a thing on a Tuesday and be unable to say it out loud on the Wednesday, and that gap between doing and talking is what the book is really about.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (155 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
Oral sex is about as ordinary as sex gets, yet English has spent four hundred years avoiding a plain name for it. This book follows fellatio from the ancient world to the Clinton deposition room, by way of sexology, teenage life, pornography and feminism.
What it finds is that habits change quickly while meaning lags well behind. Someone can do a thing on a Tuesday and be unable to say it out loud on the Wednesday, and that gap between doing and talking is what the book is really about.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (155 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.