Somewhat surprised by the topic of conversation, Gramsci attempted to deflect it. "Anything from seconds, if you're Tso illicitly in a teenager's bathroom, to eight hours, if you're Sting," he replied.
The Cow rolled her eyes. "Normal people!" she snapped. "How long for normal people?" Being a spider, Gramsci didn't have the remotest notion.
But he was in good company, it appeared. Neither did uMalume. uMalume set the bar at 15 minutes - 15 minutes, he said, for "people who enjoy having sexual intercourse". And since uMalume is on record [see below] as viewing anything beyond that as "unnatural", or "wrong things", even 15 minutes may have exhausted his repertoire.
But 15 minutes was probably a good target, Gramsci thought on reflection. 15 Minutes was the gap between lectures, and - unless one had to get from Upper Campus to Hiddingh in that gap - allowed a quick visit to the Beattie staircase, or the Classics section in the Library.
But the Cow was not so easily appeased. Most people appeared to use the gap for coffee refuelling - which, as was argued elsewhere, merely adds to the pressure on the staircase. Perhaps 15 minutes was a bit on the high side, then?
Before his cross examination started, [Zuma] told the court he had sex with the woman for about 15 minutes.
When asked by his advocate, Kemp J Kemp what the intensity of the intercourse was, Zuma said: "it was normal sexual intercourse by two people who enjoy having sexual intercourse".
From RedRibbon:
South African AIDS group provokes debate with oral sex idea
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 14 June 2002
South Africa's foremost youth AIDS awareness campaign has provoked debate with its suggestion that the country's youth could practice oral sex as a way of avoiding the deadly disease. The LoveLife Campaign, which receives money from the government, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, defended its advertising campaign that encourages young people to try "sucking, licking and kissing a person's genitals" as an alternative to penetrative sex.
The proposal has sparked considerable raising of eyebrows for its advocacy of unorthodox sex. Responding to a request for his opinion on the campaign, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was quoted as saying, "I can't answer on wrong things that people do that are unnatural. I can't talk about that." LoveLife CEO David Harrison said oral sex could save the lives of thousands of young people at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, which has already infected an estimated 4.7 million South Africans - or about one in 10.