NY Times: Equality and Preference

Choice remarks on the new CDC report:

"'One thing that surprised me is that we expected, based on anecdotal evidence, that girls might be more likely to give oral sex and boys more likely to receive it, but we didn't find that at all,' said Dr. Jennifer Manlove, of Child Trends, which, like Ms. Brown's group, released an analysis of the data, 'There's more gender equality than we expected.'"

Tell me, why would one tend to think this? Are we simply propagating the idea that females don't have any sex drive themselves?

"A very significant proportion of teens has had experience with oral sex, even if they haven't had sexual intercourse and may think of themselves as virgins," Dr. Manlove said. "We're not sure whether these teens who have not had sexual intercourse are engaging in oral sex because they view it as a way to maintain their technical virginity or even because they regard it as an easy method of birth control."

Or, just maybe, because they enjoy it!