ArticleJournal of sex research2016
Oral Sex, Young People, and Gendered Narratives of Reciprocity.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Reported oral and anal sex among adolescents and adults reporting heterosexual sex in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Reproductive health · 2019Pooled it
- Orgasm and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: Differences Across Genders and Dyad Configurations.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- The Intimate and Sexual Costs of Emotional Labor: The Development of the Women's Sexual Emotional Labor Assessment.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Higher Sexual Avoidance, not Higher Pathogen Disgust, Is Associated with Lower Arousal in Women with a History of Unwanted Sex.Evolutionary psychological science · 2024Article
- Framing and understanding the whole aspect of oral sex from social and health perspectives: a narrative review.F1000Research · 2022Review
- Black Women's Pleasure Mapping.Journal of black sexuality and relationships · 2021Article
- A National Dyadic Study of Oral Sex, Relationship Quality, and Well-Being among Older Couples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019Article
- Early sexual experiences of teenage heterosexual males in Australia: a cross-sectional survey.BMJ open · 2017Article
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Abstract
Young people in many countries report gender differences in giving and receiving oral sex, yet examination of young people's own perspectives on gender dynamics in oral heterosex are relatively rare. We explored the constructs and discourses 16- to 18-year-old men and women in England used in their accounts of oral sex during in-depth interviews. Two contrasting constructs were in circulation in the accounts: on one hand, oral sex on men and women was narrated as equivalent, while on the other, oral sex on women was seen as "a bigger deal" than oral sex on men. Young men and women used a "give and take" discourse, which constructed the mutual exchange of oral sex as "fair." Appeals to an ethic of reciprocity in oral sex enabled women to present themselves as demanding equality in their sexual interactions, and men as supporting mutuality. However, we show how these ostensibly positive discourses about equality also worked in narratives to obscure women's constrained agency and work with respect to giving oral sex.
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