A Cultural and Political History of Oral Sex (Patreon)

How has oral sex impacted and been shaped by history, politics, and art? I'll be talking about everything from the Egyptian myth of Set, Isis, and Osiris to middle age assessments of oral sex activities of witches in the Malleus Maleficarum, to the musings of William Shakesphere, the clandestine oral sex sting by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the navy, to the 1990s scandals of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and Divine Brown and Hugh Grant. 

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