The first time a man asked to spit in my mouth, I was 22. When I asked about his fantasy, he didn’t hesitate – the idea of his saliva hitting my tongue was the ultimate turn-on. We’d already had sex and shared plenty of steamy makeouts, but somehow, the idea of his spit crossing that final boundary made me recoil.

I hadn’t thought about this experience in years, when in June, the Cut published a piece entitled We’re All Spitting in One Another’s Mouths These Days. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since, and now it seems like everywhere I look, people are swapping saliva in explicit ways. Spitting even made an appearance in the hit thriller Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld and had a moment in the popular reality show Love Island USA, when contestant Hannah spit

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