I was about to say something when the scream came. Mother stood there and let out the worst scream I have ever heard in my life! Dad shouted from the bottom of the stairs and ran up them in time to see me stand up, still with an erection dripping of come, trying to think of something to say.
"Filth! Filthy pigs, disgusting pigs! Get that slut out of my house… sucking your thing… filthy degenerate pig!" Mother was shaking. Dad didn't know what the hell to do or say. I wanted to shout back, but I thought of Rhoda first, and slammed the door in Mother's face and locked it. She stood out there beating on it for a few minutes, calling us all kinds of names, but Dad finally got her away. I think he dragged her down the hall, the one time in all the years I had been alive that he finally exerted some force over her!
Rhoda broke into tears, and I held her – she was confused. But we talked, and I told her about my mother and how difficult life was with her, I was determined that she would not ruin my relationship with Rhoda, and although it was my fault for leaving the door open and all, I was glad I did it because it put me in a position of having to be truthful.
I told Rhoda I was moving out of my parents' house, I told her I was exclusively oral. I told her what my parents were really like. I told her about them fucking obscenely on the living room floor. I told her I loved her and wanted us to have a chance together.
And we walked out of that house, together, past Mother and Dad. We told them we were in love and that we liked sex and would share all kinds of it. Mother screamed, "Not in my house!" again and we assured her she was right, never again in her damn house!
"I rented an apartment three days ago. Rhoda is going to live with me and maybe, after the influence of my mother wears off, we'll even be able to fuck regularly."
Carey is a typical paranoid character. His only hope for recovery depends on his ability to relinquish his identification with his aggressive mother and come to terms with this aggression he has assimilated from her which, as part of him, he projects upon others.
Now that Carey has left home, and his overprotective mother, he has a better chance of being free psychically, however, he takes his parental situation along with him in his unconscious. Because of the intensity and prolonged quality of his relationship with his mother, Carey now has characteristics – paranoia, sadism, cannibalism – which could even develop into real criminal manifestations in his later life.
As severe as Carey's case seems to be, it is not an unusual development. His Jewish upbringing so characteristic of a middle-class American life dominated by a father whose role in life has been restricted to providing, and a mother who tries to find meaning in life through an overpossessive attitude toward her children, created Carey's situation and many others of similar character, fixated at one level of sexual development or another. Carey is not so much typically a Jewish son as he is typically an American boy.
CONCLUSION
Examining the present set of narratives gathered together under a single theme – oralism – one cannot fail to be impressed with the wide-ranging changes in attitude that have led to the current sexual revolution among young people. The general acceptance of oralism and other extra vaginal (or non-genital-to-genital) means of attaining sexual satisfaction has been attested to by the current popularity of marriage manuals and other sources of sex education in which these practices are rather prominently featured.
These changes, bolstered thus by the proliferation of sex education manuals and other educational aids, have led to what many consider a complete reversal of sexual attitudes, as Albert Ellis observes in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior:
As we enter the closing phases of the twentieth century, a curious semireversal of the Eastern and Western attitudes toward coitus seems to be taking place. At least, among the highly educated, intelligent, and widely read classes of English-speaking society, an unusually liberal attitude toward extravaginal coital relations has been and is still spreading: so that it may be confidently predicted that by the close of the present century an individual in these classes will be considered neurotically inhibited and to some degree sexually deviated if he does not at times spontaneously and joyously engage in all forms of heterosexual coitus, vaginal as well as nonvaginal.
The objective observer may well wonder what the future holds if this prediction becomes even partially true. How will the eyes of the future look back upon our era of widespread sexual neurosis and psychological conflict? What will they think of the masses of pilgrims wending their way to the offices of psychiatrists and psychologists all over the country? Will even such narratives as the foregoing seem exceptional in their fascination with oral sex? Note that even to Ellis the criterion for sexual health seems to be the exclusivity of nonexclusivity of sexual interest.
It may be then, that there is a gradual relaxation of the more neurotic forms of sexual vigilance working its way through our society and the societies of the Western world in general. It was not so long ago, in Victorian England, that the mention of such parts of the body as the arm or the leg brought shocked amazement at a mixed gathering. The taboos of that period have been relaxed to a substantial degree in the present day. It should not take much imagination to postulate the further alteration of ingrained sexual taboos as the world moves on.
However, even with the relaxation of sexual prejudice and the improvement of scientific and psychological techniques for the investigation of human sexual behavior, it cannot be assumed that topics such as oral sex will be accepted quickly and without reservation throughout the general public. As always, the advancement of knowledge will proceed in slow, steady steps.