why in the hell do they call blowjobs 'BLOW'jobs?!

after seeing a curious set of letters on a license plate we were pondering to ourselves "Why in the hell do they call a blowjob a 'BLOW'job when you SUCK the majority of the time...... according to.. 'statistics'..."???

 

I've wondered about that before too, and I really don't know why it's called what it is.

 

maybe when blowjobs originated they started as "blow" jobs and gradually the technique evolved into how it is done currently, but the name kept. lol

 

waiting for professional opinions

 

You "blow" your load don't you?

There ya go...

 

wait a minute, girls are supposed to suck? oh jeez

 

I wondered about this as well, maybe cause 'suck job' doesnt sound as attractive.

But blowjob gives me a mental image of the girl holding it and blowing like you would blow out candles on a cake

 

It's a curious thing about the English language, in that quite often common expressions are reversed and they actually mean the opposite of their literal meaning. It's usually for humorous, ironic, or sometimes sarcastic effect. How it gets started is never easy to pinpoint, but someone just says something in which he/she means the opposite, but it sounds kind of funny to say it that way, so it gets repeated, and before long everybody seems to be saying it. Example, someone tells you something that's obviously a lie. You say, "Yeah, right." You don't mean, "Yeah, right," you actually mean, "No, wrong!" And the person hearing it knows exactly what you mean. There are lots of other examples.

As to blowjob, there was never any blowing involved. It was always pretty much a suck job. It's just another one of those terms that somehow got started that means the opposite of what the actual words say.

 

"An excerpt from a book "Sexy Origins and Intimate Thing".

The phrase "blow job," for oral-genital sex performed on a male, is surprisingly new in terms of its widespread understanding and usage. It started to appear in slang dictionaries in the 1960s, around the time pop icon Andy Warhol released his film Blow Job, containing several explicit depictions of the act. Earlier the term had been used by college men, prostitutes, and printed in underground pornography, but it was not yet commonplace.

To many Americans in the 1940s and 1950s a "blow job" was a faster-then-the-speed-of-sound "jet airplane." It took off and gave everyone nearby a "blow job." The Thesaurus of American Slang (1953) records an example of this usage from an issue of the San Francisco Examiner in 1945: "A P-59 jet propelled Airacomet, affectionately called the 'blow job' by flyers, will make several flights in 1946."

Linguist think the sexual connotation of "blow job" evolved from "blowoff," an expression meaning to finish off, to climax, to end. "Blowoff" in this sense is related to "blow off steam," to put an end to a emotionally frustrating experience. When a prostitute gave a client a blow job she was helping him "blow off" the steam of sexual arousal. In the 1930s, street-walkers offered oral sex with the phrase "I'll blow you off." It suggests 'I'll cool you down,' 'I'll release your steam.'

Some linguists think the term "blow job" evolved gradually from an eighteenth century European name for a prostitute, blower. A popular name for penis at the time was "whorepipe," and it is easy to see how the woman who played the instrument came to be called a "blower." But was the act called a "blow job?" There's no indication of that."


btw a girl blowing on ur dick can kill you if any air gets into the blood stream so id advise against that :O

 

I thought it originated in the 70's when cocaine (aka 'blow') first gained popularity. If you didn't have enough money to afford your fix, then you'd get on your knees and pay your dealer in the only other way...

 

Actually it WAS really just "blowing" to excite the guy getting blown. It evolved from there. Don't remember where I heard it from, but yeah.