A History of the Blowjob

Discussion in 'General Mayhem' started by Emetic, Oct 7, 2001.

  1. Emetic

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    ...As previously promised/threatened. Now that we're in between post-Saturday detoxification & Sunday afternoon re-intoxication, let's improve ourselves by learning something.
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    The Early Years

    No one knows for sure when the first blowjob occurred. Some paleontologists hypothesize that hominids such as 3.2-million-yr-old "Lucy" engaged in fellatio, if only in the lack of moral codes. Neolithic rock art
    has been found which seems to depict perhaps the first recorded hummer (as well as a 3-some) : that of a woman sucking one man while she is being penetrated by another.

    The first civilized BJ belongs to myth: Hacked to pieces by an enemy, the Egyptian god Osiris is reassembled by his faithful wife, who "blows life" back into him thru a reconstructed penis. Osiris' father, the earth god Geb, also made appearances sucking his own penis (a feat that only two or three mortals in a thousand can achieve, according to Alfred Kinsey).

    Greek poets offered some of the earliest lyrical references to BJs - Archilochus in the seventh century B.C. wrote, "As on a straw a Thracian man or Phrygian sucks his brew, forward she stooped, working away."

    The official Greek culture of gaydom and naked exercise made oral sex a matter of course, although not all men lifted their togas for teen boys. Educated courtesans known as hetaerae performed a good many BJs on influential Athenian men; these women enjoyed an influence that the wives could barely fathom.

    Summing up the sexual politics of that time, Demosthenes wrote, "We have hetaerae for our pleasure, concubines for our daily needs and wives to give us legitimate children and look after the housekeeping."

    The Romans distinguished the BJ between the passive act of receiving (fellation) and the dynamic act of providing (irrumation). The fellator represented weakness, ridicule and submission; the irrumator embodied valor, strength and conquest. In their world, fellatio was considered so base it was often
    inflicted as punishment. If a farmer caught a traveler stealing potatoes from his field, he might compel the thief to blow him (it's arguable whether this may have kept the crime rate low, or just led to burglers tending to be a bit swishy as well as incautious). In the ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists uncovered a graffito (probably on what was a remnant of wall from a public restroom) that read Lahis fellat assibus duobus, which translates to "Lahis gives head for half a sesterce".

    Legend has it that Egyptian queen Cleopatra blew more than 100 Roman noblemen during a marathon orgy. The Greeks knew her as Meriochane ("she who gapes wide for 10,000 men")

    According to the Chinese, giving head was a path to enlightenment so long as the "yang essence" (semen) was not lost. Many of their sex manuals diagrammed contortions designed to help men get their Jade Stalks, Swelling Mushrooms and Heavenly Dragon pillars sucked while rerouting the sperm to their brains. From India sometime between the 3rd and 5th centuries came the seminal (no pun intended) sex guide, Kama Sutra. It's thesis being that good sex is good karma, it featured eight stages of "oral congress" (but nothing on "oral presidency")including side-biting, polishing, mango suction and absorption. Each had been perfected by eunuchs.

    The Indians inspired the Arabs. Middle Eastern sex manuals like The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation borrowed heavily from the Kama Sutra. Harem women of lore were portrayed as passionately wild, penis-sucking, freelance fellatrices. On the South American continent, certain
    pre-Colombian pots had two spouts -- one penis-shaped and the other vulva-shaped -- giving the drinker the choice between fellatio and cunnilingus.

    The Dark Ages of Christianity

    The only mention of oral sex in the Bible appears in the Song of Solomon, where an appreciative woman recounted, "I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."

    Despite this - or perhaps because of its lack of prominence - the blowjob was frowned upon by early church leaders. In 1012, a German bishop, Burchard of Worms (?), laid down the law for women: "Have you swallowed your husband's semen in the hope that... he might burn all the more with love and desire for you? If you have... you should do penance for 7 years on legitimate holy days." By comparison, using a dildo "of a size to match your sinful desire" cost only one year of penance; using a strap-on meant five years and doing it doggy style could be rectified in only 10 days on bread and water.

    But if sex for pleasure was a sin, many Christians sinned quite heartily. By the Renaissance, oral sex had become so popular in France that "frenching" became shorthand for any type of genital kiss -- an
    appellation which those froggies still justify. One contemporary survey of 6000 men from around the world indicates that the French report the most blow jobs, followed by Greeks, Brazilians and Poles. The first
    Western literary BJ appears to come from François Rabelais, whose writings were so obscene he now enjoys his own adjective (Rabelaisian): "My wife will suck my sweet tip. I'm ready and waiting. I swear and promise to you that I'll always keep it succulent and well victualed."

    The New World

    Although authorities in England and the colonies took a dim view of deviant sex, statutes banning sodomy were generally understood to include only homosexual anal sex and bestiality. In 1880, only 3 U.S. states banned fellatio. By 1920, at least 24 had also taken the plunge, and 11 state courts defined oral sex as sodomy. A 1904 Georgia Supreme Court ruled in one case that fellatio had not been indictable under English common law only because it had not been so common (I like a judge with a sense of humor)

    By 1986, in reviewing another Georgia case (what's with these paranoid rednecks in Georgia?), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of states to ban BJs and other "unnatural" acts.

    Today, hetero fellatio remains illegal in more than a dozen states; among them, only Alabama offers an exemption for married couples (hmm, doesn't sound like a fair trade to me).

    Despite the legal rigamarole, the average American didn't pay much attention to those robe-wearing chuckleheads. Around the turn of the 20th century, pornography possessed by the middle class showed an almost obsessive interest in oral sex. In A Practical Treatise on Fellation: Its Advantages and Inconveniences, a translated WWI-era monograph by an anonymous Frenchman, the best blow jobs are asserted to be those received in small rooms with dark red furniture and bathrooms stocked with port, sherry or madeira and "biscuits of any kind except those too allegorically cylindrical and long." Men are advised to accept fellatio only from women under the age of 35. Each woman should be proficient in warm-up exercises such as tracing the sign of infinity with her tongue and being able to pierce with its tip, without touching her lips against any surface, a hole 3/8" in diameter (a hole in what? I wonder).

    The author also encourages women to use advanced techniques such as spider-clawing and flutterblasting while skillfully handling the complex riggings of the male genitalia, including the
    puckering string (the scrotal centerline), the drawstring (frenulum) and the balano-preputial groove. His treatise closes with suggestions for postfellatio conversation - high on the list are the weather and recent political assassinations.

    Silent movie actor Charlie Chaplin became on of the most notorious victims of the official antifellatio sentiment. Caught up in an acrimonious divorce, the actor was charged with having "solicited, urged and
    demanded
    that the plaintiff submit to, perform and commit such acts and things for the gratification of defendant's said abnormal, unnatural and degenerate sexual desires, as to be too revolting, indecent and immoral to set forth in detail." Chaplin had asked his wife for a blowjob. He settled the case in 1927 for $625,000.

    (Aside: Why does lawyerly rhetoric always come in such redundant triplicate even to this day? I urge all would-be barristers reading this to consider its absurdity)


    Blowing and Shooting: The Post-WWII Invasion

    When the boys finally came home, they brought with them higher sexual expectations on their women as a result of contact with those professional froggie cocksuckers among others. Kinsey in 1948 found that about 40% of American males had received oral sex; five years later, he reported in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female that 49% of married women provided oral sex, and that 62% of the youngest, well-educated and sexually active women reportedly gave BJs to boyfriends.

    Kinsey eventually lost his funding due to the controversy this introduced, being that oral sex was illegal in almost every state. Aware of his fate, Masters and Johnson opted not to include their findings on this topic in their 1966 Human Sexual Response {/I]. "We didn't have the courage," Masters explained years later.


    No Holding It Back: Mainstreaming the BJ

    By this point we all have awareness to some extent of the literary anchorpoints for the BJ's insertion into modern culture: Anaïs Nin's The Woman on the Dunes, Emmanuelle Arsan's Emmanuelle, John
    Updike's Rabbit, Run and Portnoy's Complaint. Cinematically, Linda Lovelace in the 1972 adult film Deep Throat made an indelible impression as a latter-day saint of fellatio (it's hard to ignore a 20-foot hummer).

    Then came the VCR. The rest was all downhill from there.

    Postscript from the last gasps of the 20th century: the BJ had inarguably and ironically come a long way (heh) by the time the President of the United States was forced to publicly elucidate his thesis
    that perfectly echoed the common view: inserting one's penis into a mouth is distinct from -- constituting a lesser degree of intimacy than -- inserting it into a vagina.

    Perhaps old Bill had seen the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks, and took his cue from the dialog in a scene between store clerk Dante and his girlfriend, Veronica:

    DANTE: You said you only had sex with 3 different guys. You never mentioned him!

    VERONICA: I never had sex with him.

    DANTE: You sucked his dick!

    VERONICA: ...We never had sex, but we fooled around... I'm sorry, Dante, I thought you understood.

    DANTE: I did understand! I understood that you had sex with 3 different guys and that's all...

    VERONICA: Dante...

    DANTE: How many dicks have you sucked?

    VERONICA: Let it go!

    DANTE: How many?!?

    VERONICA: Something like... 36.

    DANTE: ...Does that include me?

    VERONICA: Umm... 37

    DANTE: My girlfriend has sucked 37 dicks?!?

    STORE CUSTOMER: (overhearing) In a row?

    VERONICA: I'm going to class (exiting)

    DANTE: Try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!
     
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  3. Emetic

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    I'm not sure what you meant by that, Spank - that word seems to have become your catch-all reaction encompassing: surprise, disgust, hunger, incontinence, and sexual longing

    At any rate, and for the record, I did not author this piece completely - just summarized and reworked a longer one, as well as inserting my italicized comments. I didn't attribute it as it's pretty much a complete violation of copyright anyway (so sue me).
     
  4. Stranger

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    <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Emetic:
    Today, hetero fellatio remains illegal in more than a dozen states.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Illegal
    I knew you Yanks were sick but ....
     
  5. Disorder

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    <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Emetic:
    surprise, disgust, hunger, incontinence, and sexual longing<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    time to get some more graemlins (smileys to the layman) designed, i think.. sparky would be delerious with pleasure i'm sure....
     
  6. Emetic

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    Well, Stranger, I'm sure that your government system down under isn't that different from ours in a certain dynamic: the suits are so busy passing new stupid laws that they have no time to spend on rescinding old stupid ones.

    This could be rectified by the enaction of Emetic's Acid Test Sunset Law, which says to the effect: any criminal law under which not one person has been convicted for a period of at least 20 years, or 2 persons within 30, automatically retires.

    I really believe this world would be be a much better place if I ruled it... but I'm not holding my breath (and don't bother begging).
     
  7. Zig-Zag

    Zig-Zag New Member

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    As if.
     
  8. Nicodemus

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    The United States of Emetica?
     
  9. pimpchichi

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    Ding dong
     
  10. Nursey

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  11. TimBoaT

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    Still waiting for those nudes Nursey.....
     
  12. Kathy001

    Kathy001 New Member

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    Thanks for the posting!!!
     
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  13. pimpchichi

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    Surprisingly well considering I had a complete breakdown end of 2012 and had a stillborn daughter end of 2013. Had my son at the end of 2014, but it was quite the stressful time cos his due date was her death date.
    He's fucking awesome, but it took my granddaughter being born last year on my daughter's due date and funeral date to complete the circle.

    Hope you're well
     
  14. Nursey

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    Well…………………………I was in one of the most torrid, passionate and testing relationships imaginable for ten (very!) long years, sharing every aspect of my life down to my deepest secrets with someone who led me to believe they were my (*ahem*) “soulmate” and would eventually marry and make a life with me………………………only to get “GHOSTED”, like a three week long fucking Tinder date, can you believe!!? Quite unimaginable, I know, but yep – that’s what happened to me! He didn’t have the balls to end it, either face to face, by phonecall, letter, email or even by text. Just very slowly emotionally asphyxiated by the person I had devoted my life to for the previous ten years. Take a moment to imagine that, if you will, pimpchichi? And let that be a lesson to you, ladies - or bots scrolling through these pages! To this day, I can’t imagine how this other person deals with having this sadistic, cruel decision on their conscience. They have to live every day with the fact that they are a complete fraud - and like all frauds, are an insult to humanity. No decency or decorum - just a selfish, immoral beast. It must take some feat of mental acrobatics to salvage an outward appearance of ‘integrity’, knowing what a deeply treacherous, cowardly human being you have chosen to be. Even more so to convince yourself of this (ever so minor) detail, daily! It would drive me to a nervous breakdown. That’s why it's always best to act with courage and integrity – because the alternative is to end up a weak, fragmented being. People like that are ten-a-penny. They are dross, the meaningless white noise of the universe, with no real credibility, impact or say. Rather them than me!

    As you might imagine, with no real form of closure whatsoever, the wounds have never had a chance to close or properly heal. I still hurt to varying degrees to this day, I’m ashamed to say. He may have been a Neanderthal clod, but he was also the love of my life. Nobody has filled the void, but as you’ll perhaps know, when you have loved someone very deeply, it is practically impossible to find another who you share the same level of connection with. Not if you’re true to yourself, anyway. The world, however, is awash with shallow frauds who don’t care for integrity or loyalty, those who use others for purely selfish, basic means. These people can build whole lives based on their false characters, some even convincing themselves they are the real thing! However, authenticity doesn’t come cheap. Rather them than me.

    To be honest, he did me the biggest favour by removing himself from my world. In essence, he had the auric qualities of a very large turd floating in my spiritual ether. A snot-grey hue dulling the rainbow spectrum of my life. Yet somehow, some part of me still loves him. However, whatever it was I loved was most likely a projection, considering what a duplicitous, self-serving shitweasel this character turned out to be! Or maybe there is just something wrong with me.

    But anyway, life goes on! I’m very sorry to hear about your loss. Congrats on the wife and kids. At least one of us found our trollmate!

    C'est la vie....
     
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  16. julkaira

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    the dialog makes me laugh a lot ))
     
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  19. Nursey

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    Ditched the step-cousin already? Cute wee boy. Hopefully his mother can teach him empathy and integrity between episodes of Love Island and Britain's Got Talent.
     
  20. Nursey

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    I am sure she is better suited to your level of intellect, to be honest.
     

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