My statement regarding married women contributing to the livelihood of prostitutes by not performing oral sex is indicative of the "norm." A bit more scientifically, the link below will take you to a table based on 2010 research in the U.S. by the agency at Indiana University that grew out of the old Kinsey Institute - a well respected research group in the field of sexual behaviour. It indicates that among younger women, performing fellatio is more common than among older women. This tells part of the story.
Studies among teen aged women in U.K. and Australia indicate that there is great peer pressure to engage in oral sex. Other studies have shown that oral sex in more common between married couples than with hookups or more casual friends. Further studies in the U.S. have shown a recent (last ten years) decrease in all sexual activity among teens. This includes oral sex as well as vaginal intercourse.
http://www.nationalsexstudy.indiana.edu/graph.html
Historically, oral sex has risen and fallen among polite company with some women on the fringe stepping in to provide the blojobs that wives do not. Both the Kama Sutra and Perfumed Garden have descriptions and pictures of oral sex. Several Biblical verses are believed to be describing oral sex by married couples. But, the story or Onan (spilling seed on the ground) and Sodom and Gomorrha (general licentiousness) are the teachings that all three Ibrahamic religions (Jews, Muslims, Christians) have promulgated for hundreds of years. The more fundamentalist groups of all three emphasize what is acceptable sexual behaviour as determined by some groups of old men interpreting biblical teachings through their own value system. Krafft-Ebing in the late nineteenth century was the first to include (without detail) the term genital kissing in a "marriage manual." Other such publications of the time, such as Kellogg's, preached that sex was not for fun and other than him sticking it in her was unhealthy and objectionable. We are still living by those Victorian mores in much of the English speaking world and the older we are, as individuals, the more likely we are to have been tainted by those twisted values (notice my values coming through).
Whether it was the work of Helen Gurley Brown (very recently deceased), the feminist authors of Women's Room, Speedboat, Mr Goodbar and the like or the results of the Masters & Johnson studies (1960s) finding that oral sex, and even masturbation, was more common than generally believed, or the general opening up of women sexually as a result of the pill, all sexual behaviour has become more open. (That was a helluva sentence!)
So, you want a normative statement? Younger women more than older but there is a high variance in the willingness of all. My view: oral tricks must be in the quiver of any woman who does not want him to wander. Or, stated another way, men really have boring sex lives compared to those of us with more varied orgasmic response and sexual satisfaction and need the variation in ways we extract their semen.
Nothe that the table cited is "In the past year." Some numbers would be higher if the question had been "ever." For instance, homosexual behaviour among teen aged women is more common than people know but it disappears on this table from older women.
Brandye
Posted: 05 Oct 21:43