casting couches & fish skins

[neil]

on 1/19/06 6:58 AM, Douglas G. Wilson at douglas at NB.NET wrote:

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>> ... Finally, at an earlier moment in the movie, when she first has
>> extricated his prick from his trousers and is resting it on her hand,
>> he orders her to "blow on it".  She does.  He repeats the order, in
>> larger letters, and a third time.  Is this erotic practice the origin
>> of the term "blowjob"?
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> "She does" means what? If she blows on it as one might blow on a spoonful
> of hot soup, then I suppose a joke is being made: he would prefer her to
> blow on it as one blows on, say, a saxophone (sort of). But if she blows on
> it as if on a wind instrument, in truth, she still sets herself up for
> another (more familiar) joke ... right?
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> I have seen "play the flute" or equivalent applied metaphorically to
> fellatio in literature from >500 years ago, I think. I believe the metaphor
> is based on the gross appearance of the activity ... while the dynamic
> details are quite different ... or so I'm told.
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> I believe "blow [job]" is probably based on such a metaphor (visual
> comparison to playing a wind instrument, or blowing up a balloon, or
> something like that).
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> -- Doug Wilson
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Somewhere I read the hypothesis that 'blow job' derives from 'below job'.

--Neil Crawford

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