Blow Job Nation

August, 1998

Blow Job NationHow Fitting that the Nineties should end with visions of blow jobs. Whether any involved President Clinton or not, the blow job feels right--not weird, not prurient--as the defining emblem for these past ten years. It is sexual fast food. In lieu of deeper and more penetrating sex, sex that might heal you, it's quick and detached. So it seems right that the Gulf war, with its high-speed, video-game technology and curiously deflating outcome, was the classic conflict of the Blow Jo...