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Hello, my lovely Bertwiksters, it's me, Kate Lister. Welcome back once again to

Bertwicks the sheets. Hello, how are you doing? Long time, no see. Sit your fine ass down.

But before we can go any further together, I do have to tell you once again, this is an adult podcast

spoken by adults to other adults, bad, dalty things, an adulty wake, range of all subjects, and you should be an adult too.

And we're actually being extra spicy today because we're talking about an obscene sex act.

So get your pearls ready to be clutched.

Right. Let's get on with this, shall we?

It's got many names, giving head, going down, eating out, dining at the Y,

muff diving, and my most, most favourite sneezing into cabbage.

I am, of course, talking about conalingis.

And I have spent an eye-watering amount of time researching this particular sex act for my new book, Flick, The Story of Female Pleasure, specifically looking at why this particular

act has been such a taboo, why it's been so demonised, and ultimately became the sex act that is

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