Words I Hate

This one has bugged me for years. We have many euphemisms for oral sex, which I won’t go into here, but only a few terms that are used in common parlance.  There are a fair number of sexy ways a person can describe fellatio, such as “suck your cock”, “suck you off”, “fuck my mouth”, “come down my throat”, and so on.  Even “head” is useful under certain circumstances.  But “blowjob” is still the most compact and convenient noun we have to describe this act, and it’s a TERRIBLE word.  First you have that opening “BL”, which sounds like someone throwing up, then that “J” which is never a sexy sound, and then the fact that when you give a blowjob, you don’t blow anything — you suck.  And to call it a JOB implies that it’s hard work.

If anything, it should be called “suckfun”.

Here’s a short unsourced explanation of the origin of this word from author/historian Charles Panati: The Origin of ‘Blow Job’.