The other day Sex Nerd Sandra put up an interesting post on her blog called Sometimes a Girl Just Wants Good Head. Here’s some of what she wrote:
I’m inspired by a play I saw tonight. Set in 1963, The Magic Bullet Theory was a fun who-shot-JFK ride rich with witty dialogue. One topic that came up several times was blowjobs. One man-character says “women were put on this earth for 2 reasons: to suck our dicks and take our balls.”
Now, contextually, that remark fit with the character and his point, so I don’t mean to get all up in feminism’s business, but it did stir something in my psyche. Later in the story during a fabulous montage scene, a blowjob is artfully woven into the dance number for a brief few moments.
That blowjob business got me a little, well, distracted. First in the hot kind of way. Then I got kind of mad. The passionate voice in my head said, “Why do I never hear women saying, ‘oh man, all I need right now is a good eating out,’ hmm? Why do I never get to see cunnilingus depicted in such a fun & casual manner? I’m not ALL flowers and cuddling, ya know!”
I’ve just never seen a woman portrayed that way. The character in the play receiving aforementioned head was a lawyer. He was a professional going about his job and having a little fun on the side. Good times all around. What if a woman were playing the part?
My first thought reading this was: YES! I would totally love to see that. A woman lawyer professional having a little fun with a guy going down on her on the side. Good times all around!
My second thought was… would we ever see such a role?
It’s hard to imagine now, especially in the context of a renewed assault on women’s rights we’re seeing in the political arena right now. But I think we will, and likely sooner rather than later. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. And if there’s any justice in this universe, this country will eventually shake off the Puritanical morals that put a real damper on expressions of female desire and sexuality. Not to mention I’d imagine such a role done well would likely be a gigantic hit for whatever network was bold enough to try it.
