In France it is considered more personal than intercourse. Over here it is BJ then graduate to intercourse, in France it is the other way around.
http://jezebel.com/5936964/blowjobs-why-cant-americans-be-more-like-the-french
British Sex Therapist Tracey Cox says "Americans appear to be more squeamish about it. Brits tend to think of oral sex as second prize. It’s not seen as ‘real sex’ but something you do before intercourse or as a consolation prize. Eighteen to 25 year-olds see it as something casual, often what they’ll offer up if they don’t want to have full sex with a guy."
Cox thinks this attitude to oral sex is ‘silly’ and she could well be onto something here. The French, in contrast, tend to view oral sex as just as important and intimate as full sex, if not more so,"
http://jezebel.com/5936964/blowjobs-why-cant-americans-be-more-like-the-french
British Sex Therapist Tracey Cox says "Americans appear to be more squeamish about it. Brits tend to think of oral sex as second prize. It’s not seen as ‘real sex’ but something you do before intercourse or as a consolation prize. Eighteen to 25 year-olds see it as something casual, often what they’ll offer up if they don’t want to have full sex with a guy."
Cox thinks this attitude to oral sex is ‘silly’ and she could well be onto something here. The French, in contrast, tend to view oral sex as just as important and intimate as full sex, if not more so,"