“In modern times, sex slang is all work and decreasing play, and ‘blow job’ leads the way towards labor…
“Well, of course every publication has its own internal style guide, and ours was more than hilarious. We had lists of euphemisms, paragraphs of them, for every body part you could think of. Phrases like cover girl, which in Webster’s are two words, were one word…
Man, blowjobs in ancient Rome seem like they were kind of pricey. But probably worth it. [Via]
The notoriously thorough folks at the New Yorker have sorted through our collection of profanities and when they first appeared in that esteemed periodical, and have offered a few helpful correctives. Of special interest: Mary Gaitskill, not Tad…
I really don’t want to share this with you, but I guess I probably have to: “There’s a worrisome uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex…
Missed this one earlier in the week, but I feel pretty obligated to share it around: Are blowjobs sex? All I know is that they’re AWESOME.
How are we doing sex to each other these days? In a pleasantly diversified fashion! According to research from the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, we are doing sex in 41 combinations of the following: “penile-vaginal intercourse, solo…
Now you know: “The French word for fellatio is ‘fellation’, which sounds similar to the word ‘inflation’.”
“When you spend hours making a doll camera-ready, she said, ‘it doesn’t seem funny at all when an extra pretends that the dummy is giving him a blow job.’” -Every time I see the word blowjob in the New Yorker (or, as they have it, “blow job”) I have a brief…
Each generation needs to learn anew the lessons previously inculcated upon their predecessors, so it perhaps in the spirit of public service for the youth of that that ladysite The Gloss offers up this guide to blowjob etiquette. The moral is…
