Why do we, of the Hobby, call oral sex on a man’s member a “blow job”? I mean we don’t call dining at the Y a “blow job”. Yet we in our confused, uneducated, pitiful state of mind still fumble along quite happily trying to help our Provider friend reach the same ultimate goal or should I say “climax”.

Right? Right!

Well, I have taken the onus upon my own shoulders burden that it is to try and further the education of you dumb bast---s … uh, I mean educationally-challenged Hobbyists.

First, I journeyed to an ever, enlightening source … Webster’s dictionary. To my surprise here’s what Merriam had to say about blow job,

“usually vulgar:  an act of fellatio”.

Okay, not really very helpful.

So, I turned to Maven’s Word of the Day and I quote:

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There are apparently two well-argued schools of thought about the origin of the word “Blow Job”.
Both explanations share the view that interpreting the word blow figuratively is the key to understanding blow job. Then you are in striking range of deciphering the steamy slang. Now, you just have to decide which figurative meaning of blow the word refers to.

One explanation ties the phrase to the jazz slang blow meaning 'to play an instrument'. From there you get the semantic connection of working a tool with some skill, presumably involving the mouth, and there you go.

The second school of thought proposes that the blow in blow job indicates the climax, and is also related to the expression "to blow off steam." Although the phrase blow job dates only from the 1940s, there is a reference to blowing (someone) off, roughly equivalent to the modern phrase "getting (someone) off," in David W. Maurer's 1939 glossary, Prostitutes and Criminal Argots.

In either case, the word was used primarily in relation to prostitutes, or as a menu item in brothels, until the 1960s. By the 1970s, the use was widespread in the U.S. and the U.K. Whatever its origin, it can now be shortened to only blow, and is often used to make combined forms, like blow book 'a pornographic magazine' or blow buddies 'friends who engage in oral sex'.

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There you have it. The origins of "Blow Job". Happy hobbying.

Love,

Dick

BTW - I personally like the part of the definition that says, “working a tool with some skill, presumably involving the mouth”.

I am all in.

-- Modified on 3/29/2006 1:29:58 PM