Why BLOWJOB?

[TyLa_BaBy]

Yay! Thanks for the answer(s). Have been fairly curious about this myself.

[stupendous]

Have been having this for a long long time without knowing how the description was derived. Thanks for enlightening me.

[freezetheDB]

i thought the ancient Chinese scholars had always hid sexual tones into their poems,
oftenly depicting pretty women/courtsans 吹箫 (blowing the flute)

[deca]

Hence goes the saying, "You learn something new everyday."

[Ichigo_Kurosaki]

There are 2 well-argued schools of thought. Both explanations share the view that interpreting the word "blow" figuratively is the key to understanding blow job

1st 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.

The 2nd 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'.

[hiaokong]

Originally Posted by kitaeshi

blow job sound nicer..suck job.. only ppl complaint their job suck..haha

so true... hahahahaha