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The Moral Panic of Oral Sex
The only like voice of reason in this entire New York Times article, it appears about two thirds into the article. It's from Dr. Deborah Tolman, the director of the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality at San Francisco State University. She says, this phenomenon has all the classic hallmarks of a moral panic. One day we have never heard of rainbow parties and then suddenly they are everywhere. This is not how societal phenomena work. Especially with the numbers that we have, we should be really skeptical of this.
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