Interview with William A. Henkin William A. Henkin is a certified sex therapist and licensed marriage, family, and child counselor. He is past president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, a member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. For full information about obtaining this book, visit our Ordering page.
Every society has taboos.
Most of them have sexual taboos. Those societies that do not have sexual taboos have mouth taboos, either on eating or on talking. What the connection is between the beginning of the alimentary canal and the end of it, or between the tongue and the genitals, I will only leave for speculation. The first has to do with control. As a society, we are as frightened of control issues as we are of anger issues.