How Bill Clinton Made America A Better Place

A new study with the deliberately unsexy title “Sex Redefined: The Reclassification Of Oral-Genital Contact” shows that a mere 20% of college students consider oral sex to be actual sex (98% think good old fashioned doing it falls under that rubric, and 78% say the same about anal, which, you know, I was totally born too late). That’s half the number of college kids who felt mouth stuff belonged in the sex category when asked the same question in 1991. What explains the difference?

Unlike respondents in the previous samples, our respondents were adolescents after the Clinton-Lewinsky era, which our comparisons of data over time suggest may have been a turning point in conceptualizations of oral-genital contact. The dramatic and sudden shift in attitudes toward oral-genital contact can therefore be termed the Clinton-Lewinsky effect.

Or maybe college kids just realized that having someone go down on you is TOTALLY AWESOME and should be an everyday experience that isn’t freighted with your judgey labels. Did you ever think about that, Science? [Via]