Bjorn still with us?

[Guest guest]

I saw this in the salon and a reference in the reply made me think of

our Scandinavian friend, Bjorn Herring.

'Dear Mr. Blue,

Please don't use my name!!!! I want your advice on how to

get a guy to participate in oral sex. My boyfriend of nine

months is fine with receiving it, but he will not reciprocate.

I've tried being seductive, begging, withholding,

rationalizing, but he still won't do it. He says he did it once

and didn't like it. I'm starting to become obsessed. Please

help.

Hoping'

For my own take on the young lady's question, I am reminiscent of the

quote on, appropriately enough, page 69 of the Big Book: " If you're man

does not respond, then find another " . I would say refusing to oblige

oneself would definitely do the trick eventually, particularly all sex,

and the reason she doesnt for long enough is because she is too fond of

performing it herself. I myself am so fond of it that I might suggest

offering the service to her myself at no cost. Indeed, I've even though

of posting advertisements to this effect for interested parties, with

gf's support. Anyway, this is the official reply:

'Dear Hoping,

You don't " get " a guy to do this, he does it on his own steam and

for the same reason he performs any other erotic feat, because it

excites him and it gives you pleasure and your pleasure excites him

further. You could recite to him the old limerick: A young lady got

on her knees/And said to her lover, " Oh please!/It will heighten my

bliss/If you do more with this/And pay less attention to these. " You

could ask him if he'd like you to trim your pubic hair. You could

suggest things involving food -- chocolate or strawberries or

whipped cream or, if he's Norwegian, herring. Or you could put this

question on the shelf and give him the chance to perform without a

cue. Men respond to cease-fires. You nag and nag and nag without

result, and then stop, and a few months later, voil`! the garage gets

cleaned, or the screen door gets patched, or the cunnilingus starts,

whatever it is you need.'