Page 20 of Lucky Night

Oral sex is fine, she’s saying. It can even be kind of fun, if the man we’re giving it to is super into it. But the act itself? Not a turn-on.

Speaking for all women now? he teases. Explaining yourselves? I thought you didn’t do that.

Yeah, well, this one’s a no-brainer, she says.

Is it? Because several women have told me that sucking cock is one of the great pleasures of their life.

Several, she says. Wow.

Three at least. Possibly four.

Were they assembled in a group when they announced this to you? she asks. Like a chorus? Chanting, or…

She’s mocking him! They’re bantering. She’s fine. Leaving would have been a waste of precious time, it would have been…oh, but they could have fucked in the stairwell. Glaring lights, the possibility of exposure. Her on the step above him, pinned against the wall, skirt rucked up, her cries echoing as he savagely—

Settle down.

Separate conversations, he says. They assured me. Swore up and down. How do you explain that?

They were lying to you. She holds out her glass. May I have more champagne?

He reaches for the bottle. Yes, my reluctant fellator.

She laughs. Right, I’m such a reluctant…whoa, that’s plenty. Thank you.

My pleasure. He eases the bottle back into the bucket. Now. Why would they lie?

Who, your harem of cocksuckers?

It’s his turn to laugh. Yes. My harem. Why would they lie about loving blow jobs?

She shrugs. To reassure you, maybe. To make you feel less ashamed about what you want.

I’m not ashamed about what I want.

Sure you are, she says. Deep down. We’re all ashamed, all the time, about everything. She sips her champagne. Though maybe they weren’t deliberately lying. Maybe they genuinely believe that giving head turns themon.

But they’re wrong?

Yes. They’ve been brainwashed.

To enjoy dicks in their mouths?

To please men, Nick.

Ah, right. He tops off his own glass. Because women are systematically indoctrinated, they’ve internalized misogyny, been warped by sexist propaganda, yadda yadda.

She stares at him. Yadda…yadda?

Danger zone!

Let me rephrase, he says. You’re referring to the indisputable fact that women in our culture are conditioned to serve the interests of men.

In all cultures, she says, and yes.

Meaning that any male-benefiting desire a woman expresses, such as for the aforementioned dick in the aforementioned mouth, is more likely the result of that woman being trained to want what men want her to want, than it is some inherent desire of her own.

Exactly, she says.

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