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One Comment to “What is the origin of blo* jo* (the slang term that means fellatio)?”
A few months ago the question of the origin of the phrase “blow job” came up. (Best not to inquire how.) I contacted a reference Librarian to help with the search. She found the following as the origin of the term:
Apparently, the term comes from Victorian England. Remember that at that time folks would refer to women of questionable character as “blowsy?” (Think about literature you’ve read.) 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 (rather than some odd, ineffective action on the part of the partner). Once again, the masculine bias reigns!
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Slang “do fellatio on” sense is from 1933, as blow (someone) off, originally among prostitutes (blow job first recorded 1961 in the sexual sense; as recently as 1953 it meant “a type of airplane”).
January 24th, 2009 at 1:27 am
A few months ago the question of the origin of the phrase “blow job” came up. (Best not to inquire how.) I contacted a reference Librarian to help with the search. She found the following as the origin of the term:
Apparently, the term comes from Victorian England. Remember that at that time folks would refer to women of questionable character as “blowsy?” (Think about literature you’ve read.) 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 (rather than some odd, ineffective action on the part of the partner). Once again, the masculine bias reigns!
or
Slang “do fellatio on” sense is from 1933, as blow (someone) off, originally among prostitutes (blow job first recorded 1961 in the sexual sense; as recently as 1953 it meant “a type of airplane”).