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Now, I only read the first Outlander novel because I was trapped at an airport and didn't feel inspired to read more, but I am mildly curious about the tv version because of Ron Moore and Bear McCreary. Also Tobias "Brutus" Menzies is in it. And it didn't escape my attention that in the pilot, Our Heroine gets cunnilingus from her husband, or, as the AV Club review puts it here:
When he goes in for a kiss, she leans back and instead pushes him downward. Frank gets the message and doesn’t miss a beat as he begins to perform cunnilingus on her. Okay, we’ve seen this scene a million times in the reverse: a dude guiding a girl’s head down for a blow job. But a woman initiating oral sex and the guy just going for it? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a thing on television before Outlander.
I wonder, too. Because at first I thought, hold on, I can remember several cunnilingus scenes on tv. Without looking it up and purely out of memory, memorable scenes : Alicia and Peter in The Good Wife (and yes, it signals a power switch in their post-scandal, post-prison relationship); Lilah and Wesley in Angel in the s4 opener (actually, Joss Whedon shows are fond of the act; Spike also goes down on the Buffybot in Intervention, and Joss even smuggled it into the musical Once More With Feeling, at the end of Tara's song to Willow ("You make me com....plete")); and of course his readiness to perform cunnilingus gets Junior praise from his girlfriends and merciless ridicule from the guys in season 1 of The Sopranos. However, now that I think about it, in all these cases the cunnilingus performer is the one who initializes the act, not the woman on the receiving end, as it were. (Though I'm not 100% sure about the Alicia and Peter scene, which is at any rate definitely coded to signal she has the upper hand in the relationship now; I might misrenember, but I think it's the first time they have sex after he got released from prison.)
Anyway: if you remember a tv scene where the woman signals to her partner she wants cunnilingus and he promptly goes for it that I did not mention here, gentle reader, feel free to tell me.
Now, I only read the first Outlander novel because I was trapped at an airport and didn't feel inspired to read more, but I am mildly curious about the tv version because of Ron Moore and Bear McCreary. Also Tobias "Brutus" Menzies is in it. And it didn't escape my attention that in the pilot, Our Heroine gets cunnilingus from her husband, or, as the AV Club review puts it here:
When he goes in for a kiss, she leans back and instead pushes him downward. Frank gets the message and doesn’t miss a beat as he begins to perform cunnilingus on her. Okay, we’ve seen this scene a million times in the reverse: a dude guiding a girl’s head down for a blow job. But a woman initiating oral sex and the guy just going for it? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a thing on television before Outlander.
I wonder, too. Because at first I thought, hold on, I can remember several cunnilingus scenes on tv. Without looking it up and purely out of memory, memorable scenes : Alicia and Peter in The Good Wife (and yes, it signals a power switch in their post-scandal, post-prison relationship); Lilah and Wesley in Angel in the s4 opener (actually, Joss Whedon shows are fond of the act; Spike also goes down on the Buffybot in Intervention, and Joss even smuggled it into the musical Once More With Feeling, at the end of Tara's song to Willow ("You make me com....plete")); and of course his readiness to perform cunnilingus gets Junior praise from his girlfriends and merciless ridicule from the guys in season 1 of The Sopranos. However, now that I think about it, in all these cases the cunnilingus performer is the one who initializes the act, not the woman on the receiving end, as it were. (Though I'm not 100% sure about the Alicia and Peter scene, which is at any rate definitely coded to signal she has the upper hand in the relationship now; I might misrenember, but I think it's the first time they have sex after he got released from prison.)
Anyway: if you remember a tv scene where the woman signals to her partner she wants cunnilingus and he promptly goes for it that I did not mention here, gentle reader, feel free to tell me.
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Date: 2014-08-15 06:56 pm (UTC)