I don't have any grand insight on this, but I don't see the lesbian sex thing. It seems too simple and crude for Patti. I thought perhaps the title referenced the Ballard story, and didn't take the eating to be a literal thing. But hey, maybe after being away from making music, raising kids, and having her husband and others close to her die, she decided to write a cheap metaphor for cunnilingus.
I don't have any grand insight on this, but I don't see the lesbian sex thing. It seems too simple and crude for Patti. I thought perhaps the title referenced the Ballard story, and didn't take the eating to be a literal thing. But hey, maybe after being away from making music, raising kids, and having her husband and others close to her die, she decided to write a cheap metaphor for cunnilingus.