Robert T. Michael
sociologist
University of Chicago

Lauren Berlant
author - professor of literature
University of Chicago

Charles Madigan
journalist - Chicago Tribune

Edward O. Laumann
sociologist
University of Chicago

Stuart Michaels
professor of sociology
University of Chicago

Marie Saez
manager of an adults only store

Channing Jones, Lucas Alvarez, Orion Kellogg, Aron Bloch
students

Recent studies of young Americans 15-30 years old show that for nearly 60% among them, fellatio and cunnilingus "are not sex" and are the first practiced sex acts because those acts are "nonreprehensible".

Oral sex does not make a girl a "woman of easy virtue" or, a young man a "ladykiller unworthy of confidence". Oral sex allows an American youth raised in fear of disease, religion and "right" morals, to find a substitute to sex which can be expressed before marriage with a clear conscience.

Despite a certain sexual freedom born in the Seventies, the United States remains a deeply religious country, and that the epidemic of AIDS caused a return in strength of its strict puritan morals…

Sociologists, journalists, writers and students speak to us about sexuality in the United States. We discover a complex world, where private life and intimacy are controlled by morals, religion and policy…