casting couches & fish skins

[George Thompson]

"If she blows on it as one might blow on a spoonful of hot soup. . . "

This is what she does.

Since we here on this list are not interested in advanced erotic
practices, but only in the words that name them: if he was giving the
ingenue an order that in her innocence she failed to understand, that
would be evidence that the word "blow" in the carnal sense is older
than the citations in HDAS show.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:58 am
Subject: Re: casting couches & fish skins

> >... 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"?
>
> "She does" means what? If she blows on it as one might blow on a
> spoonfulof 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?
>
> I have seen "play the flute" or equivalent applied metaphorically to
> fellatio in literature from >500 years ago, I think. I believe the
> metaphoris based on the gross appearance of the activity ... while
> the dynamic
> details are quite different ... or so I'm told.
>
> 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).
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>
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