In Praise of Cunnilingus in Pop Culture.

I feel like I can't watch anything lately without seeing someone going down on a chick (OK, we've been watching OITNB and Jessica Jones, so that might be why). While it's kind of uncomfortable since the boys are watching too, I'm actually really glad it's being portrayed in pop culture like it's NBD.
Thinking back on my own introduction to cunnilingus, I'm... sure? ... it was mentioned in sex ed at elementary school? But then I went to a Catholic High school, so 'sex ed' didn't exist outside of talking to my friends and watching tv/movies and reading Cosmo. By the time I was in my first year of college and met a guy who was really into going down on me, I really only had Chasing Amy and the "oral pleasure" scene from Pulp Fiction to go on.
To be fair, blowjobs weren't really a thing in my world, either, but I feel like they were more prevalent in pop culture than cunnilingus. (Side note: why aren't there easier terms for it than "going down" or "cunnilingus"? Why don't girls get a casual slang nickname for it? I suppose there's "muff diving" and "eating/getting eaten out" but nothing as easy-breezy as "blowjob".*)

Anyway, I'm just glad there's representation of it on the teevee so when/if my boys do get into hetero, sexual relationships, they're not all, "hurr-dee-durr, lemme just get my p in yo v an' then I'm out."


*I was just alerted that "talking to the canoe driver" is another term for carpet munching, which is pretty fucking funny. Although... doesn't the person in the back of the canoe do the steering?? When you speak with *MY* canoe driver, I'd rather you spoke to the bowman, rather than the sternman, if ya get my drift.

Further Reading: Why Is ‘Going Down’ Often a One-Way Street? (Originally Published Sept 13, 2011)