The Oral Generation purports to provide sexual education to the female viewer. Seeing how an overwhelming amount of these kinds of films caters to the male audience, that’s kind of noble, I guess. To back up that claim, the first sex scene is a long cunnilingus sequence focusing on the woman’s pleasure. Next, we meet a housewife yearning to pleasure her husband orally who reads a book about giving head and then shows him what she learned. Another woman fantasizes about going down on a black martial artist (his karate demonstration is humorously intercut with their lovemaking). Then, a woman shows off her oral skills and, with a little aid from some petroleum jelly, helps her lover achieve a climax. In the final segment, a bored housewife acquiesces to her husband’s desire to spice up their love life by allowing another woman into their bedroom.
The movie begins with a cool look at 42nd Street where the theatre marquees advertise everything from The Bizarre Ones to a Godzilla triple feature. Sadly, that’s about as seedy as it gets. The Oral Generation is more of a “white coater” as it provides the audience hardcore action under the guise of “sex education”. (We are shown many “how to” manuals and hear about laws prohibiting certain types of sexual activity.) The dry, clinically accurate (for the time) narration enhances the educational feeling, but it consequently prevents the proceedings from getting too sexy.
Overall, The Oral Generation is a moderately successful hardcore flick. True to its title, it features a heavy concentration of oral scenes. Although none of them are exactly high caliber (the nutty Kung Fu scene is at least memorable), there are certainly plenty of them to go around. Because of that, fans with an oral fixation will no doubt walk away satisfied by this one. Other folks will probably wish there was a little more variety on hand.
According to IMDb, director Richard Franklin is apparently not the same Richard Franklin who made Fantasm (and Psycho 2).
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