Word: orals
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...studied disconnection from the world that has made Murakami's early work so beloved of the fashionable literati - and the lonely young - has receded. In fact, responsibility is his animating principle these days. "I have a gift to write about these things," Murakami says of 1997's Underground, his oral history of the Tokyo subway gas attacks and a book he sees as a career turning point. "At the same time, I have a responsibility." Though he says he doesn't want to talk about Japanese politics, he returns to the subject again and again throughout a 212-hour conversation...
...take the teen-pregnancy numbers. It's not enough to credit the virtues of responsibility and better sex education. Something racier is desired. According to some writers, fewer teens are getting pregnant because they've all switched to oral sex. Or maybe the phenomenon is due to a still unexplained decline in sperm counts...
...recommended the service to others. His office did not respond to requests for comment on those issues. But Palfrey argues that those potentially prurient details of Vitter's activity are key to her case. "If Sen. Vitter participated in any illegal behavior, illegal sex, illegal prostitution, intercourse or oral sex of any kind, you would have to wonder why he would not be prosecuted," she said. Palfrey's legal defense is that no prostitution took place because the escorts who worked for her business were issued strict written instructions not to engage in illegal sexual activity. Indeed, Randall Tobias...
Genarlow's case tips the scales the other way. Georgia citizens were so troubled when the homecoming king was sentenced to 10 years for having consensual oral sex with his underage girlfriend (he was 17, she was 15), the state legislature amended Georgia's child-protection act to reduce the offense to a misdemeanor. But Genarlow remains in jail after 28 months because lawmakers did not make the change retroactive. Jimmy Carter spoke out for leniency. On June 11, a judge ordered Genarlow released, citing a "grave miscarriage of justice." His mother called it a miracle. But still he sits...
...moral argument against non-prescription oral contraceptives is that sex, and all that jazz, should be a big deal: If women are allowed to purchase the pill willy-nilly then they will all go around have lots of sex and being generally licentious. Again, this argument puts the cart before the horse, assuming doctors’ appointments uphold moral attitudes. Most individuals make decisions about sex based on their own personal moral and social circumstances, not on the availability of pills and condoms—after all, anyone can pick up the latter freely at CVS. And even...