Just wondering if anyone knows why a blow job is so called. After all you don't blow as if you're playng a flute. Do you?

Sensible answers only please.

It`s called a blowjob because when people didn't have any money for 'blow' (drugs) they would give them a 'job' for blow, hence it being a 'blowjob'.

Because a man is about to "blow" his load

It's called blow job because most females think it really blows.

Surely this act was being performed long before drugs were an issue?

And SB - speak for yourself. :wink2:

They were just guesses and I used to know the answer but just can`t think of it at the moment.

Patsy - I said most females, I wasn`t referring to myself :wink2:

Seabreeze - you've done far to much thinking about SF and his blow jobs! :w00t:

Seabreeze - you've done far to much thinking about SF and his blow jobs! :w00t:
I know, I really need to get a life :laugh: anyway

Apparently, the term comes from Victorian England. Remember that at that time folks would refer to women of questionable character as "blowsy " Well, "blow" was slang for ejaculate. So, getting a blow job meant creating an ejactuation in the man. Thus, "blow job" is from the masculine perspective of what happens to the man.

I know, I really need to get a life :laugh: anyway

Apparently, the term comes from Victorian England. Remember that at that time folks would refer to women of questionable character as "blowsy " Well, "blow" was slang for ejaculate. So, getting a blow job meant creating an ejactuation in the man. Thus, "blow job" is from the masculine perspective of what happens to the man.


Goodness knows what sites popped up when you entered 'blow job' into your search engine, SB!:shocking:

I know, I really need to get a life :laugh: anyway

Apparently, the term comes from Victorian England. Remember that at that time folks would refer to women of questionable character as "blowsy " Well, "blow" was slang for ejaculate. So, getting a blow job meant creating an ejactuation in the man. Thus, "blow job" is from the masculine perspective of what happens to the man.

is that answer sensible enough for you SF?! :nerd:

well done SB! go to the top of the "researching rude things" class!!

Miss PJ has wondered this as well. I always assumed it was because it makes you 'blow' your load. Could be wrong though...

Edit - just read Seabreeze's post #6. I feel very knowledgable about it all know. I will let Miss PJ know at once. I'm sure she'll take more pleasure in doing it if she understands what it means (he says, hopefully)

Surely this act was being performed long before drugs were an issue?

Yeah, but it might not have been called a blow-job in the very olden days. If Seabreeze is right and the phrase originated in Victorian times, drugs were an issue back then. All that "Chasing the dragon" in the opium dens of London....

Actually, I've got another question about blow-jobs.

Is it only a blow-job when it is done to a man? Most people always assume it is, but I'm sure I heard/read somewhere that when a man performs fellatio on a woman it can still be correctly referred to as a blow-job.

Anyone know for sure?

Yeah, but it might not have been called a blow-job in the very olden days. If Seabreeze is right and the phrase originated in Victorian times, drugs were an issue back then. All that "Chasing the dragon" in the opium dens of London....
What do you mean if Seabreeze is right? I will have you know I am always right !!! :ninja:

What do you mean if Seabreeze is right? I will have you know I am always right !!! :ninja:

I think you might be wrong.....:laugh:

when a man performs fellatio on a woman it can still be correctly referred to as a blow-job.

Unless the woman's a pre-op tranny then I don't think the man will be able to perform fellatio on her...

Unless the woman's a pre-op tranny then I don't think the man will be able to perform fellatio on her...

Oh, have I got my sexual phrases mixed up???? Either I'm really an innocent, virginal, angel or I'm just not with it today.

Eiterh way, I mean when a man goes down on a woman.

Thats cunnilingus.

Thats cunnilingus.

Oh God, yeah. Course it is. :laugh: Cheers.

Anyway, anyone got an answer to my bleedin' question?

Oh God, yeah. Course it is. :laugh: Cheers.

Anyway, anyone got an answer to my bleedin' question?
Well you are less likely to get cunnilingus then !

Well if Seab is right :wink2: , the last time I looked nothing "blew" out of me, so I don't see how it can be called the same thing.

What could it be called, do you think? How about a "slurp job"?

Thanks Patricia...my idea of lunch just evaporated:sick:!! That's even more appalling as well because we have 'convenience stores' over here called "7-11's" that have frozen concoctions of Coca-cola, diet Coke, Dr. Peper, and various other soda flavors that are called 'slurpees' and my affection for them has been violated somewhat.:shocking:

p.s. if Fee bolts the country when she finds out I'm hopping a plane and storming to the UK, will you be my 'host family'?? I will talk slowly enough for you to understand my accent and will clean up after myself, although after a night of Absolute, I've find I have do have an affinity for the karaoke...which can't be any worse than SOME I've heard.

If you're willing to fund the cost of building an extension onto the shoebox that is my house, you'd be more than welcome.

I'll borrow one of Coaster's pup tents or tee pees or something she sleeps in while sleeping all over various countries...

**note to self: buy LOTS of bug and parasite sprays when I so this...:bag:**

hehe this is a funny thread...:laugh:

Well you are less likely to get cunnilingus then !

I just spat tea over my keyboard thanks to you :laugh:

According to a book in my vast library bookshelf down at the end of the hall, "Wicked Words" by Hugh Rawson..."The sexual sense may derive from blowoff, meaning the ending, finish, or climax of something (from to blow off steam). The connection here is made in a 1939 glossary of "Prostitutes and Criminal Argots" by David W. Maurer: "To BLOW (YOU) OFF. To hold intercourse through the mouth" (Language of the Underworld, 1981). In addition, Maurer recorded blower as "A French girl. Also indicated by the phrase she stoops to conquer." (Prostitutes and thieves' mistresses also were called blowers from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, but this blower seems to be a variant of the Gypsy blowen, with the same meaning. It may be significant, too, that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the penis was sometimes referred to as a whorepipe-adding a new dimension to the phrase "to pay the piper.") Whatever the source, the word seems to have filled a need and since gaining currency has been extended to include the act and activity as performed by either sex. It has also occasioned more than its share of puns. Thus, from Ray Allen Billington's Limmericks Historical and Hysterical 1981:

A bitter new widow, quite tough,
To her mate's ashes said in a huff,
"You've diddled young girls,
Never brought me no pearls,
And wanted me to blow you-so puff"

I'll borrow one of Coaster's pup tents or tee pees or something she sleeps in while sleeping all over various countries...

**note to self: buy LOTS of bug and parasite sprays when I so this...:bag:**

With Papa Coastie out of the country I have a spare room...but you'd have to find me first! :laugh:

There are times when even a BJ wouldn't enter ones mind..

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Poor Poor Jack..... He will go through life being pointed at and people going...HOW COULD YOU??