I wasn't sure where to post this, and then I saw the Pub is for hanging out, which you have to do, I think, for a blowjob.

So, once, I asked a mate why a blowjob is called a blow job, was it because you're meant to blow up his little hole? And she said nooooo, if you do that, he gets airbubbles in his blood and dies.

So then, I thought to myself, is it called a blowjob because you're meant to take him out of your mouth and blow along his shaft a bit?

Or, is it called a blowjob because he blows his load after you suck him?

I've learned a lot since being here, but I still don't know this most basic of things.

Please help me. The Sexy Fairies will kiss your Happy Bits if you do.

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If you suck a flaccid cock and it fills with blood you have by all intents and purposes blown up the cock.....

Demonstrations are available......

Id

I did a little research.

From Dictionary of Contemporary Slang:

“This term, now widespread in English-speaking countries, spread from the USA in the 1960s. A puzzling misnomer to many, to blow in this context is probably a euphemism for ejaculate, a usage occasionally recorded in the 1950s. This may itself be influenced by the there she blows of whaling cliche. An alternative and equally plausible derivation of blow job is from the black jazz musicians hip talk expression blow meaning play (an instrument). This term probably caught on in Britain and Australia simply because there was no well-known alternative in existence.(1)”

…and…

From the Maven’s Word of the Day:

“This question has been asked by absolutely everyone I know. And for all the wondering we’ve done about why anyone would give the act of fellatio such a misleading sobriquet, there has been little written about it. There are, however, two well-argued schools of thought.

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.”

There are many other competing folk etymologies for this phrase, but these at least seemed to ring true to us.

edit: heres another possibility.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Sex#Fe…
"The common slang term blow-*** is a misnomer, as blowing is not normally part of fellatio. In fact, blowing air into a partner's penis is an unhealthy practice. It is most commonly thought to be a facetious use of "blow" as the opposite of "suck". It has been suggested to be a corruption of "below-job", below as in below the waist, allegedly an old Victorian slang term that was commonly used to describe the act. However, there is a third school of thought that believes the word "blow" in "blow-***" indicates the climax of the penis (compare to blowing of a volcano). The phrase "blow-***" originated in the 1940's;[7] at the time, it was also used by Allied pilots as a slang term for jet aircraft.[8]"


Sounds Good To Me!!

sure. i like my guy to be satisfied. i just don't swallow.

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Good Grief Girl, why not? Make him drink lots of coffee and eat pineapple ahead of time, the taste can be yummy.. But if he won't kiss you right after, no more for him. LOL

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love, amy

P.S. Coffee and pineapple?! Really???

So THAT's why the one and only guy I ever sucked told me he wasn't going to cum. He told me he didn't want to spunk on my mother's curtains, but really, he wanted his tackle in tact, not blown to smithereens by my hot, flickery-tongued mouth. I suppose I was just too good for his willy to cope with.

I heard coffee makes semen bitter, but pineapple and cinnamon make it nommy.

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I don't know and I don't care Like nike says just do it lol

Some guys like their cocks blown to smithereens and the way you describe it, I'd be more than happy to have mine blown to smithereens. "Hot flickery-tongued mouth"? Yes please!

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yep i love the comment...pineapple....coconut water works too. soo good that way. and i have always wonder about that word. English isnt my first language and when i heard that i was like huhhh why call it that?? odd. ^^

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Yes sweet thing. Amy is right. But the same is true of a woman's, you know. What you eat is going to effect your flavor. So, for example, don't eat onions before allowing your partner to linguinally explore.

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

I am the Average Need-to-Asker, then. I don't like not understanding and/or not knowing. If I know more, it means I have a better chance of writing something vaguely plausible, and I'm less likely to waste time wondering about Stuff I Don't Know.

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Alas Shylass i cannot provide the definition you seek either. But thank you for reminding me of a family meal we once had during which an 85 year old auntie loudly asked my father in law across the restaurant table..."godfrey dear, what is a blowjob'. The restaurant fell silent and my father in law nearly died there and then. Priceless!

dont really matter what you call it your still getting your dick sucked either way

So what is it called in your native language (translated into English of course)

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There is no mark of self,
And no mark of others,
No mark of living beings,
And no mark of a life.

-- The Diamond Sutra