You know I always wondered about oral sex and Bill Clinton because in America, with well-established tradition of teenage ‘makeouts’ in the backs of various iconic automobiles, ‘giving head,’ to use the technical term, precedes ‘full’ missionary-position sex more often than not; indeed, it's the most common way for young girls to preserve their virginity while keeping their sweethearts satisfied.
In short, an acceptable alternative to fucking. So that's why when Bill Clinton affirmed that he had never had sex with that woman means that he was telling the truth because as culturally defined in United States oral sex is precisely not sex. It's what enables young girls to come home and with their hands on their hearts tell their parents that you hadn't "done it." So Slick Willy, Billy the Clint, has just been parroting what any red-blooded American teenager would have said.
In short, an acceptable alternative to fucking. So that's why when Bill Clinton affirmed that he had never had sex with that woman means that he was telling the truth because as culturally defined in United States oral sex is precisely not sex. It's what enables young girls to come home and with their hands on their hearts tell their parents that you hadn't "done it." So Slick Willy, Billy the Clint, has just been parroting what any red-blooded American teenager would have said.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
