Merry Christmas! Blow Job nation.

Blowjob nation has been blamed on "abstinence only" sex-education programs. In this line of thinking the evil Republicans have made such a fetish of the intact hymen that teenagers - parsing the term "sexual abstinence" with Jesuitical precision - have decided to substitute oral sex for intercourse, thereby preserving their technical virginity.sexual purity seems a goal best advanced by those religions that advocate it, not by our public schools. But even if "abstinence" is at stake, why would girls voluntarily turn to giving blowjobs? Why do girls prefer the far more debasing, uncomfortable, and messy blowjob? And why are they apparently giving them out so indiscriminately? mostly preferring big black guys ... These are questions that none of the usual suspects can answer.

I can understand that there are people who already know that black guys are desirable, but there are those who dispute the facts surrounding this activity and are bent on discrediting black men. For those who believe that black men secure women of all colors, now you can say that you know one personally.

Wherever there's a girl gone wild, there's a gender-studies professor not far behind, eager to blame her actions on the patriarchy. One of these is NYU's Julian Carter, who says that interracial oral sex among young teen girls is part of a complex power dynamic, one that is familiar to people who know how Carol Gilligan's influential book In a Different Voice has dominated feminist thinking. Says Carter: "It's precisely at this age of early adolescence that ... girls' sense of self-worth changes dramatically ... this is when they are finding out they have less power within a patriarchal system ..." According to Carter's theory, the girls are apparently suffering from a severe form of Stockholm syndrome, and have reacted by performing oral sex on their wily captors.

The problem with this idea is that surely the patriarchy was far stronger and more oppressive in the 1950s.