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Awkward! Anthony Anderson Reveals His Mother Taught Him About Oral Sex

The Black-ish actor said his mother taught him how to pleasure women, but not everyone is here for his TMI.
Awkward! Anthony Anderson Reveals His Mother Taught Him About Oral Sex
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By Mariya Moseley · Updated October 26, 2020

During an appearance on Conan this week, Black-ish star Anthony Anderson revealed his own mother taught him how to pleasure a woman.

“My mother taught me how to go downtown…she taught me how to eat the cookie,” he said before the audience reacted with laughter. On the late night talk show, he said the woman who gave birth to him, Doris Hancox, didn’t want her “three boys out in the world not knowing how to do that,” therefore, she felt it was her “duty as a woman” to teach her children how to properly complete the act.

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With the help of her video collection, he said she would “go into graphic detail” about what the sexual act should consist of. “It turned out to be great knowledge,” Anderson joked.

However, not everyone agreed with Anderson’s honesty, including journalist Roland Martin, who responded with a tweet:

Uh, @AnthonyAnderson, your momma taught you how to travel downtown? Really? REALLY?! Way TMI!!!!... https://t.co/Gie1IHTeoH

— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) February 10, 2017

Anderson’s mother can be seen alongside her son on the ABC game show reboot of To Tell The Truth as a scorekeeper, Vibe reports. 

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