In the Age of the Ass, Our Teenagers Deserve Better Sex Education
Americans are living in an unprecedented golden era decades in the making: the Age of the Ass.
The 90s saw some posterior praise with Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” climbing Billboard’s Hot 100 List in 1992 and Sisqo’s “Thong Song” doing the same in 1999. But deep cuts from that decade reveal that off the charts, people had already been dropping bars about getting their asses eaten, like Lil’ Kim’s 1996 “Dreams.” The epoch of mainstream analingus lyrics was arguably ushered in by our patron saint Khia in 2002, with “My Neck, My Back (Lick It).” By the time we hit 2011, Nicki Minaj’s “somebody point me to the best ass eater” seemed like a totally chill and ideal request. As an adult, I revel in lyrics like “he toss my salad like his name Romaine” and “he gotta eat the booty like groceries” because they’re in accordance with my worldview that butt play is great and we all deserve great things. But even with rimming-related rhymes on the radio, our asses are still shrouded in mystery and unfortunately, stigma.
While pop culture assures we’re exposed more frequently (and at younger ages) to anal content, teens today reveal their gaps in knowledge between casual references and actual butt play. And their experiences reveal a shameful void where our comprehensive sex education should be.
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