Sex File: The new boyfriend doesn’t like oral sex

My new boyfriend says he doesn’t like being given oral sex. I can’t say it bothers me hugely, but I’ve never come across this before and I’m quite puzzled. I thought all men liked it. Am I wrong?

Not all men like oral sex. Statistics from the second UK National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle show that most men (88.3%) and women (87.8%) have tried oral sex at least once, but they don’t tell us how many of them tried it, hated it, and have not done it again. In Jessica Wood’s 2016 study exploring gender differences in oral sex practices and pleasure ratings among heterosexual Canadian university students, nearly a third of men said that they didn’t like receiving oral sex.