Eating out, going down, breakfast in bed, dining at the Y, whispering to Venus – whatever you want to call it, cunnilingus is still an unreasonably taboo subject. Films are usually given a higher classification if they include footage of someone going to town between a woman's legs and female ejaculation in porn is literally banned under BBFC laws in the UK. This is the state of affairs we are currently working with. Men, meanwhile, can jizz with wild abandon wherever they want. Pouting face emoji, face with steam from nose emoji, wastebasket emoji, etc. Still, that which is repressed often finds a way of expressing itself somehow and music has, time and time again, come to dust the cobwebs off mainstream culture's ideas about gender roles, sexual politics and, indeed, the gates of mystery themselves.Artists across the board – from riot grrrl to R&B – have boldly buried their faces where chaste crooners of previous decades had feared to go, thus establishing a rich lineage of pussy power anthems. You can take your pick, from TLC's debut single "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" in which Left Eye (RIP) extolled the virtues of lovers who would " kiss both sets of lips", to Bikini Kill's "Anti-Pleasure Dissertation" in which Kathleen Hanna railed against dudes who kissed-and-told (" did you tell them, how punk fucking rock my pussy smelled?").Read more on Noisey.
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