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concurred; tapes of her telephone conversations recorded her saying that she was not having sex, ‘just fooling around’. Much more could be written about this, but I want to say something about the fact that most of the sexual contact in question consisted of Lewinsky performing oral sex on Clinton. Here I find myself in agreement with Andrea Dworkin’s assessment that this, as a non-reciprocal activity, is ‘the most fetishistic, heartless, cold sexual exchange that one could imagine ’ (1998: 50). I have no political or aes-thetic objection to the practice of female-on-male oral sex; in the context of a sensual meeting of bodies, where this is one of many pleasures given and received, it is fine. But Lewinsky serviced Clinton while he had telephone conversations. He wasn’t even fully engaged with the act; it is almost dis-embodied sex, as if his penis was being manipulated without him being implicated at all. Perhaps he was stating a truth when he said he did not have ‘sexual relations’. This reveals a great deal about male (hetero)sexuality

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