..."The worst blowjob a guy can ever get on a scale of one to ten is about an eight," my friend Larry once said. An ex-boyfriend of mine disagreed. "My friend K. told me about one time a girl used teeth," he said, shuddering. Although the main thing going through a guy's mind is, "I can't believe I'm getting some action, this is awesome" (the same applies for intercourse), anything involving teeth is a universal no-no. You might not be outright chomping down on his penis (sorry for that image, guys), but the mere indication -- in this case, a nip or slight raking motion with those pearly whites -- reminds the fellated that biting is a possibility, however remote....

Kate McDowell in the Cornell Sun Nov 14, 2002

{the current state of sexual morality is like the current state of anything. it doesn't exist as a 'thing', a single entity that can be talked about with a singular pronoun. it's a 'them'. there's people all hidden away from the sinful modern world wearing long dresses, the women anyway, and never talking about the big frightening reality of sexual reproduction. most of them are Christians. it doesn't help at all the way the Bible conveniently blanks out on Jesus and puberty. the exact years of any male's sexual peak are missing from the Christ tale. on the other side are people who think anything goes as long as no one gets 'hurt'. but they measure that hurt in minutes or days, or in the case of STD's, lives, but for the most part it doesn't have that long view that makes morality important to me. because short-term morality is just biology making excuses for itself. in between those two extremes are a Walmart's worth of human attitudes. the idea that sex is evil, or dirty, or just plain something we don't discuss, is inherited. and it's inherited in the heaviest way possible. the dark silence, and parental discomfort bordering on panic. so unhealthy attitudes get passed along. my erstwhile generation went the other way, and then got herpes. there's some who believe AIDS was introduced on purpose into groups that were seen as disposable. it's possible, but so's mutation. I lost my sense of proportion about randomness and conspiracy in 1963. not that I believe every wild-eyed screed that erupts from the net, but nothing's beyond the scope of evil, and evil is real. the powers of darkness that still run the world will stop at nothing, it's in the nature of evil to be like that. but HEALTHY attitudes about sex, and HEALTHY attitudes about SAFE sex, are the only weapons we have to combat the darkness we inherited, all of us, at the most vulnerable parts of our beings. and Ms. McDowell, for all her collegiate drollery, and club kid pretenses, offers a healthy attitude and some good advice about something that you would think Christians would celebrate as the human act of creating life. it seems suspicious to me that it has to be sanctioned by bureaucracy and the permission of old men, it seems suspiciously biological that whole permission thing, but masked as religion and morality. and the game of course is by stepping away from societal control you become the champion of licentiousness and disease. well no. that's kind of the whole point here. McDowell insists that safe sex is important, to people who are going to be having sex no matter what anyone says. and in that she does good service.}