It’s on the tip of my tongue, the wag says: “One friend with whom I discussed this suggests that the recent

popularity of both species of oral sex reflects improvements in indoor

plumbing since 1945 and escalating standards of personal hygiene,

from one bath per week to one shower per day. I am not sure this

really meets the case, though. The French are not best known for

dedication to personal freshness. Contrariwise, upper- and

upper-middle-class English people were taking baths daily by the

mid-19th century, yet fellatio does not seem to have been part of

their sexual repertoire.” NYPress Four fears prevent men from giving in fully to the pleasure of fellatio, says Ishmael Gradsdovic — the fear of possession, of “the monster”, of pain, and of death. And on the tip of another’s tongue: “A Chinese woman has launched divorce proceedings

against her husband after the family’s pet mynah bird reportedly spilled

the beans on his marital indiscretions.

According to the Xinmin Evening News, the woman first suspected something

was amiss when the bird began repeating words apparently picked up from her

husband’s secret telephone calls to his lover after she returned from a

month-long visit to her parents.

She said words such as “divorce”, “I love you”, and “be patient” had become an

increasingly frequent feature of the feathered telltale’s idle twitterings.” CNN