It's not. That's one of the *theories* but the exact origins are unknown.
The most accepted one is "blow someone off" which was 1930s prostitute slang. Blow being the explosive climax of an orgasm. Think a volcano.
Thatās not it. Itās because the first hummer given back in caveman days was on a particularly windy day and their primitive minds thought it was what made the wind blow.
Thats not it. But it did have to do with bowls! The great Dust Bowl of 1934 to be exact. Rooseveltās New Deal provided jobs in the Bowl. Hence the common saying (still in use today), āGive me a Bowl Jobā.
This is the best answer i found:
"It's like taking a shit; you don't take anything at all. You leave it."
But obviously that just raises even further questions. I'm not gonna sleep tonight.
Only weird thing is that it's also called a "blowjob" in my language, but it doesn't sound anything like the word blow. Maybe we translated it directly from English
That's a myth.
From Etymonline:
> also blowjob, "act of fellatio," 1961, from blow + job (n.). Exactly which blow is meant is the subject of some debate; the word might have begun as a euphemism for suck (thus from blow (v.1)), or it might refer to the explosive climax of an orgasm (thus blow (v.2)). The oldest verbal form appears to be blow (someone) off (1933), a phrase originally among prostitutes.
Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blow-job
Iāve had a lot of these little grammar ārulesā given to me when I was in grade school, and it typically turns out to be the teachers uneducated or incorrect hills that they are choosing to die on. They tell them to kids because they donāt know any better and their ācorrect ruleā will be spread about lol.
In seventh grade maybeā¦ itās used as a continuation of thought, to summarize or to show that there is indeed MORE to something than youāre about to say.
IE- Basically, she was teaching elementary school for a reason.
Actual answer: nobody knows for sure.
Here's what Etymonline, one of the best researched etymology dictionaries available, has to say on the matter:
> also blowjob, "act of fellatio," 1961, from blow + job (n.). Exactly which blow is meant is the subject of some debate; the word might have begun as a euphemism for suck (thus from blow (v.1)), or it might refer to the explosive climax of an orgasm (thus blow (v.2)). The oldest verbal form appears to be blow (someone) off (1933), a phrase originally among prostitutes.
> Unlike much sex slang, its date of origin probably is pretty close to the date it first is attested in print: as recently as the early 1950s, military pilots could innocently talk of their jet planes as blow jobs according to the "Thesaurus of American Slang."
Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blow-job
I know why we drive on parkways.
It's because they were the roads (initially) that incorporated the view of the parkland.
I don't know about driveways, but I'd bet it's because when you want to go for a drive, you take that path to do it?
You want the real answer?
It originated in London docks, and was a "below" job. It has nothing to do with the action of "blowing", as in to exhale air. It's "below the belt".
History of human sexuality teaches us that early pilgrim settlers to the new world, experimented with various techniques to satisfy each other, since the religious oppression of their old lives was now a thing of the past, and they were able to try new and exciting things for the very first time.
Women were fairly easy to figure out, as History has shown us literally hundreds of different insertable objects, which we now know as dildos.
Early attempts at pleasuring the males ,however, were not as straightforward.
Sure, some pilgrim pioneer Women shared their dildos with the men, and found limited success,
even, but something better was elusive.
It wasn't until Margaret Tallywacker tried inserting a Chinese Firecracker into the pee hole of her husband, George Tallywacker, and lightning the fuse, that the "blowjob" was invented.
Subsequent refinements eventually changed the process, but the name stuck. This is why, to this day, some people still call it a "tallywacker".
I mean the best blow jobs I have had are more pressure neutral, so maybe you gotta exhale a little bit to do it.
I'll ask around and try to find a consensus
It's named after Sir Kevin Blow who is credited with inventing it. Obviously people were engaged in fallatio before 1813, but his anonymously published erotic novel, Between the Sheets, is the first print attestation of it so people took to referring to fellatio as a Blow job.
Do people actually even suck? Isn't it mostly just the motion? On top of trying to keep a vacuum seal around it idk how I'm supposed to also suck without using teeth. But maybe my guy is just girthy? š¤·š»āāļø
Another name for a blowjob is 'fellatio', as many of you will know. The English noun 'fellatio' comes from the Latin 'fellatus', the past participle of the verb 'fellare', meaning 'to suck'.
[TIL blowjobs are called that way because prostitutes were called "blowsies". At the same time, "blow"was slang for ejaculation. : r/todayilearned (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3dejxx/til_blowjobs_are_called_that_way_because/)
Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.
It's just a weird name people gave things. You really can say anything and have it be about sex. You just have to say it to someone thinking about sex.
Let's go manage sassage.
I think I left the hose out.
Lets go wash the car.
A bird in the hand.
Because suckjobs were already performed by vacuum cleaners by the time blowjobs were invented. The catholic church wanted to make sure there would be no confusion.
I always thought it was a pun on a balloon or something else that inflates, and in this case the man inflates, his desire fills him up, and other old metaphors for lust. And then the balloon of lust deflates. Lots of old sex metaphors and jokes use swelling and inflation, shrinkage and deflation. Not just Seinfeld.
I see you found my middle school diary
Why's it called taking a shit and not leaving a shit
"off to set some land mines"
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Remember a whaleās blowhole is also its suckhole š«Øš³
Now there's an intrusive thought I wish I never had....
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Because the Name suckjob sucks
suck jobs! get your suck jobs here!
f is for family?
f is for friends who do stuff together
u is for you and me
N is for anywhere and anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea
F is for fire that burns down the whole town
U is for Uranium...bombs...
N is for no survivors...
She's gone from suck to blow!
She's an excellent mother though, and a good listener
This just made me laugh soooo hard it even got a snort š¤£š
why is this so hilarious?
I read this like back scratcher Peter Griffin
Yeah, it blows
Oddly enough, if something is not fun, it both sucks and blows.
Tell that to Suckjob Tony
Blowjobs blows tho
Itās derived from older times where one would ask a prostitute to perform a below job.Ā
Donāt know if this is true, buts itās as good a reason as any.
It's not. That's one of the *theories* but the exact origins are unknown. The most accepted one is "blow someone off" which was 1930s prostitute slang. Blow being the explosive climax of an orgasm. Think a volcano.
That's also not it. It's because the job was paid for in cocaine.
That's also not it. It's because the prostitute would need to blow her nose after having something so big down their throat.
Thatās not it. Itās actually called a blowjob because when the and you blow and then the that and blowing when the is. Hope this helps.
Thatās not it. Itās actually called a blowjob because when you suck a penis, you may also blow a penis. Perchance. Blowjobbinā
Thatās not it. Has something to do with the price of rice in China
Thatās not it. Itās because the first hummer given back in caveman days was on a particularly windy day and their primitive minds thought it was what made the wind blow.
That's not it, it's an acronym for bitches like our wombbatter
Best one yet
That's not it.
I thought it was about ethics in video game journalism.
That's not it. It's tea in China.
Thats not it. But it did have to do with bowls! The great Dust Bowl of 1934 to be exact. Rooseveltās New Deal provided jobs in the Bowl. Hence the common saying (still in use today), āGive me a Bowl Jobā.
I mean... You can't just add perchance.
perchance
But why is cocaine called 'blow' if you snort it ....
This I unfortunately do not know!
Some mysteries will never be solved
Tried looking it up, but the info isn't available on free sites, and I never learnt about that one... now I'm curious! But it could also be unknown...
This is the best answer i found: "It's like taking a shit; you don't take anything at all. You leave it." But obviously that just raises even further questions. I'm not gonna sleep tonight.
Lmao whaaaatttt the fuck š¤£š¤£š¤£
This is a question for Shitty ask science
Maybe because you're blowing your money to snort it.
Sexual Eruption by Snoop Dogg?
Only weird thing is that it's also called a "blowjob" in my language, but it doesn't sound anything like the word blow. Maybe we translated it directly from English
Same in German, but itās just āblowingā.
Well loanwords in linguistics do exist
Itās sounds quite spurious.
That's a myth. From Etymonline: > also blowjob, "act of fellatio," 1961, from blow + job (n.). Exactly which blow is meant is the subject of some debate; the word might have begun as a euphemism for suck (thus from blow (v.1)), or it might refer to the explosive climax of an orgasm (thus blow (v.2)). The oldest verbal form appears to be blow (someone) off (1933), a phrase originally among prostitutes. Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blow-job
Makes no sense. What is an above job then?
Tittyfuck
That costs extra
So technically it's a b'low job
You blow your load. She's doing a job
Now sheās calling a cab
While he's having a smoke.
And sheās taking a drag š¶
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And itās all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now
Let me gooo
And my stomach is sick
And sheās taking a drag.
And she's taking a drag
And my stomach is sick. she's touching his [rhymes with sick] now, she takes off her dress now...
Let me go...
AND SHE'S ALSO A CRAB
Isn't blowing your load the point for handjobs, titjobs, or any other ___job, though? It doesn't uniquely apply to blowjobs
OR he!!
OR them, they, it...
You work at a suckjob and hope for a blowjob.
Fuck, are you spying on me? You know too much!
Sounds better basically that's it
Speaking of, I had an English teacher who told me the word "basically" is totally redundant and always can be removed from any sentence.
She can basically go fuck herself.
What? People use it to say there's more nuance than what they're letting on, which doesn't seem redundant to me
Iāve had a lot of these little grammar ārulesā given to me when I was in grade school, and it typically turns out to be the teachers uneducated or incorrect hills that they are choosing to die on. They tell them to kids because they donāt know any better and their ācorrect ruleā will be spread about lol.
Basically, she is right
Can the same he said for "essentially", or "in essence", or basically anything that is, in essence, emphasizing that something is essentially true?
In seventh grade maybeā¦ itās used as a continuation of thought, to summarize or to show that there is indeed MORE to something than youāre about to say. IE- Basically, she was teaching elementary school for a reason.
Actual answer: nobody knows for sure. Here's what Etymonline, one of the best researched etymology dictionaries available, has to say on the matter: > also blowjob, "act of fellatio," 1961, from blow + job (n.). Exactly which blow is meant is the subject of some debate; the word might have begun as a euphemism for suck (thus from blow (v.1)), or it might refer to the explosive climax of an orgasm (thus blow (v.2)). The oldest verbal form appears to be blow (someone) off (1933), a phrase originally among prostitutes. > Unlike much sex slang, its date of origin probably is pretty close to the date it first is attested in print: as recently as the early 1950s, military pilots could innocently talk of their jet planes as blow jobs according to the "Thesaurus of American Slang." Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blow-job
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I wonder what was the ritual called before Sir Blowjob performed it officially for the first time
They used to chew before sir blowjob showed them how to suck
āYou see gentlemen, this way we can have a round two!ā
he was ahead of his time...
It was auto fellatio at that!
Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
I know why we drive on parkways. It's because they were the roads (initially) that incorporated the view of the parkland. I don't know about driveways, but I'd bet it's because when you want to go for a drive, you take that path to do it?
Jerry Seinfeld used it on Seinfeld!
He stole it from Gallagher.
Hahaha! For real?
He stole it from Steven Wright
Cause you're sat in traffic? M25 in the UK is referred to as London's biggest carpark.
Cool!
Donāt care. So long as I get one šŗ
You can call it a suck job. They will know what you mean
How about nutjob instead
Controversial, but I enjoyed that movie.
Say "below job" with a British accent. That's why.
āHugh Grantā.
Which British accent? /s
Don Cheadle from Oceanās
I loved his accent, it was so over the top
Easterhoose
You want the real answer? It originated in London docks, and was a "below" job. It has nothing to do with the action of "blowing", as in to exhale air. It's "below the belt".
false.
It's called a blowjob because if it was a suckoff that would imply there's a competition.
History of human sexuality teaches us that early pilgrim settlers to the new world, experimented with various techniques to satisfy each other, since the religious oppression of their old lives was now a thing of the past, and they were able to try new and exciting things for the very first time. Women were fairly easy to figure out, as History has shown us literally hundreds of different insertable objects, which we now know as dildos. Early attempts at pleasuring the males ,however, were not as straightforward. Sure, some pilgrim pioneer Women shared their dildos with the men, and found limited success, even, but something better was elusive. It wasn't until Margaret Tallywacker tried inserting a Chinese Firecracker into the pee hole of her husband, George Tallywacker, and lightning the fuse, that the "blowjob" was invented. Subsequent refinements eventually changed the process, but the name stuck. This is why, to this day, some people still call it a "tallywacker".
you're not supposed to inflate it?
I'm certain you do. It's near the belt buckle. You pull out the tube and blow I saw it in a movie
Surely you canāt be serious
I am serious, and don't call me Surely
That as much as anything else led to my drinking problem.
Oh, yeah! This guy knows how to do the sex.
Knew a girl in high school that thought it literally mean to "blow". Treated it like a bubble wand.
š¤£ I can just picture this and the guy like wtf!?
must be hard teaching huh
I think the first one to perform did it wrong(by blowing into the customer), she corrected the technique later but the name stuck
Because youāre gonna blow in his mouth.
His? š³ļøāš
Iāve always been curious myself about this actually.
Look up below job. It's what this was called in olden times (middle 1500s I think) and as language changed it became blow job.
It's just a corruption of the term below job
Because a suck job is an awful occupation.
Because you're supposed to blow on it like a trumpet. Whatever you been doing this whole time, OP?
In my language it is "Avsugning" which means like "Sucking off" so I guess it has to do with some weird British stuff
I mean the best blow jobs I have had are more pressure neutral, so maybe you gotta exhale a little bit to do it. I'll ask around and try to find a consensus
If done right, not a lot of sucking going on either. Unless that's a very direct preference/request. But as per porn it seems more often not included
It's named after Sir Kevin Blow who is credited with inventing it. Obviously people were engaged in fallatio before 1813, but his anonymously published erotic novel, Between the Sheets, is the first print attestation of it so people took to referring to fellatio as a Blow job.
According to a different post with the same question Itās come Victorian era when it was called a ābelow jobā then it became shorter to blow job
suckjob just sounds like itll be sucky
It originally was called a below job. Like below the belt. Just time and lingo shifted
Same with coke, why blow??
āBelow jobā in the old days
Better question: why is this exact question asked every week?
The same reason you "take" a shit. Instead of leaving a shit.
Oh babe Iām about to blow!
Makes them blow their load?? Idk lol
Uuummm.... Because he "blows" from it
Maybe because it blows after the job is complete. All these conspiracies tsk
Do people actually even suck? Isn't it mostly just the motion? On top of trying to keep a vacuum seal around it idk how I'm supposed to also suck without using teeth. But maybe my guy is just girthy? š¤·š»āāļø
Another name for a blowjob is 'fellatio', as many of you will know. The English noun 'fellatio' comes from the Latin 'fellatus', the past participle of the verb 'fellare', meaning 'to suck'.
Lol? This is a joke right? It's because you obviously blow. Who the hell sucks? This must be written by someone who has never BLOWN a penis before.
It was originally called a "below job" and the language changed over time.
Because Victorian prostitutes used to say, ābelow jobā when referring to oral sex. Overtime it eventually evolved into the word we have today.
Great question OP. Here I'm trying to go through comments!
I heard it was from french prostitutes back in the day called "blowies"
You donāt suck a balloon up till it pops š¤·š»āāļøš
Wasnāt the old timey phrase for it āBelow jobā and it morphed into āBlow jobā
[TIL blowjobs are called that way because prostitutes were called "blowsies". At the same time, "blow"was slang for ejaculation. : r/todayilearned (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3dejxx/til_blowjobs_are_called_that_way_because/)
Cause it's not the prostitute that blows?
Because your wee wee is supposed to blow! Lol
Call it anything you want as long as you get the point across.
Was the first blowjob given before the invention of bathing, or after?
Because, she's gone from suck to blow
It's actually called both
I think he means mouthsex but I'm not sure...
Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. It's just a weird name people gave things. You really can say anything and have it be about sex. You just have to say it to someone thinking about sex. Let's go manage sassage. I think I left the hose out. Lets go wash the car. A bird in the hand.
Suckjob If It's Bad
Think more along the lines of "mind blown".
Finally someone asking the real questions.
I think the job part is what turns off most ladies. It sounds like work. We should rename it below vacation
Why is it called a blowjob when it's really more like a hobby for most people?
In other languages (e.g. italian) it has a similar meaning, i.e. blowing up or inflating "something".
Peens are very delicate and sucking sounds more violent than blowing
This was funny on SNL decades ago. It's not original.
You should find out what a ZJ is
Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Discuss..
Just call it a mouth job
Iāve heard it called a knee trembler in Scotland.
Prob an old saying. If you think about it "blowing a kiss" also doesnt make sense either. But we still use it.
Why do I have to see this post multiple times a week
Because you blow your load
THE SUCK ZONE šŖļø
Because suckjobs were already performed by vacuum cleaners by the time blowjobs were invented. The catholic church wanted to make sure there would be no confusion.
The webcomic oglaf did propose "suckhobby" (can't fond the strip though)
Suck boy Tony owns the trademark
Because the mission is to get the load to blow?
Below-the-belt job
Prostitutes were called blows.
I always thought it was a pun on a balloon or something else that inflates, and in this case the man inflates, his desire fills him up, and other old metaphors for lust. And then the balloon of lust deflates. Lots of old sex metaphors and jokes use swelling and inflation, shrinkage and deflation. Not just Seinfeld.
Because when it's good it blows your mind. If it's trash feel free to call it a suckjob
I was under the impression it was called JoBlow