Flawed oral tradition

I’ve just read “Darkling we watch” (Culture, 14 November). Duncan Wu uses the phrase “he administers cunnilingus on his girlfriend”. “Administers”? Cunnilingus isn’t medication or a local authority: it’s an act of love (well, sex). Standards are clearly going down.

Aidan Foster-Carter
Honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea
University of Leeds