Disclaimer: NSFW. ‘The roots of the term "blow job" begin [...] in the 17th century, to be exact, when to "blow" meant to bring someone to orgasm. In the same time period, a "blowsy" meant a down-on-her-luck woman [...] The term "blow" wasn't applied specifically to fellatio, however, until 1930, when we saw the first recorded usage of it in a pulp novel called Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam. It also featured into a popular underground poem that circulated in 1948 called "The Platonic Blow," [...] and which is about exactly what it sounds like. [...] The first recorded usage of "blow job" was in a Tijuana Bible — a type of comic book that depicted popular cultural figures engaged in explicit sexual acts — printed in 1948, which featured one McCarthy-era male politician telling another, "You give such good blow jobs." And with that, we never looked back, America!’ (Bustle.com, Why Is It Called A 'Blow Job' When There Isn't Any Blowing?, Feb 2015)
You are my hero. Thank you. Please post more often! I enjoyed your well explained and thorough entomology as well as the citations. I wish I could upvote this more.
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