Perhaps the greatest question of our time is not how to save the planet, the health care system or even the economy, but the following doozy: does oral sex count as sex sex?
Most of college students don’t seem to think so, according to a recent University of Kentucky study. Researchers found that only 20 percent of the hundreds of undergraduates surveyed thought that going downtown was the same as going all the way. That’s about less than half the amount of people of responded the same way in similar sexual definitions studies in the ’90s.
So what’s the cause? Bill Clinton, apparently.
The main difference between this generation and the previous ones, researchers said, is that college kids today became teenagers after Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” line became part of the national lexicon – even though, as we all know, he did get a blowjob.
“Like President Clinton, adolescents and young adults often interpret these words with a degree of latitude, depending on whether they want to maintain an image of being sexually experienced or inexperienced,” the report explained.
The study authors are dubbing the phenomenon the Clinton-Lewinsky effect. And although previous generations are more likely to consider oral-genital contact as a notch in a bedpost, there’s no consensus on the definition of sex among the old folks either.
A recent study conducted by the Kinsey Institute found that 95 percent of adults think that penile-vaginal intercourse counts as sex, which of course begs the question of how the hell the other five percent define it.