college students (n = 1,928, 62% female) found that women were more likely than men to report giving oral sex more often than they received it, and men were more likely than women to report receiving oral sex more often than giving it (Chambers, 2007). Other studies indicate men may receive more frequent oral sex than young women for example, an online survey with U.S. In the United States and Canada, studies record more young men and women reporting experience of oral-penis than oral-vulva contact with a different-gender partner, both across their lifetime (Fortenberry et al., 2010), and in their most recent oral sex encounter (Vannier & O’Sullivan, 2012). 20%) (Stone, Hatherall, Ingham, & McEachran, 2006). Among young men and women in the United Kingdom, for instance, a higher proportion agreed that men expect to be given oral sex (i.e., oral-penis contact) than agreed women expect to receive it (i.e., oral-vulva contact) (43% vs. Young people’s reports suggest there are gender differences in giving and receiving oral sex. However, we show how these ostensibly positive discourses about equality also worked in narratives to obscure women’s constrained agency and work with respect to giving oral sex. Young men and women used a “give and take” discourse, which constructed the mutual exchange of oral sex as “fair.” Appeals to an ethic of reciprocity in oral sex enabled women to present themselves as demanding equality in their sexual interactions, and men as supporting mutuality. Two contrasting constructs were in circulation in the accounts: on one hand, oral sex on men and women was narrated as equivalent, while on the other, oral sex on women was seen as “a bigger deal” than oral sex on men. We explored the constructs and discourses 16- to 18-year-old men and women in England used in their accounts of oral sex during in-depth interviews. Young people in many countries report gender differences in giving and receiving oral sex, yet examination of young people’s own perspectives on gender dynamics in oral heterosex are relatively rare.
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