{"id":16034,"date":"2016-09-13T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=16034"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:08:33","slug":"10-facts-about-fellatio-that-will-blow-you-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/10-facts-about-fellatio-that-will-blow-you-away\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oral History: Blowjobs Through the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through the ages sex, sexuality and sexual practises has wavered in and out of favor, moving from one side of the moral scale of acceptability to the other. When at one time there would be near complete freedom, at other points in history, anything other than strict procreation was considered deviant.<\/p>\n

So, knowing fully that sex has and probably always will be boom and bust (literally AM I RIGHT FOLKS) over the eons, today we\u2019re looking at the role of blowjobs<\/a> in human history.<\/p>\n

Blowjobs: An Oral History<\/h2>\n

Divine Beginnings.<\/strong> The written mention of oral sex appears in an Egyptian burial chamber. Extracts from wall inscriptions tell the myth of Osiris. After being murdered and cut into pieces, the goddess Isis tried to put the pieces together but could not find his manhood. Resourcefully, she fashioned one out of clay and used her mouth to \u2018breathe life into him\u2019 through it.<\/p>\n

Original Eruptions. <\/b>The frescoes dotting the ancient city of Pompeii – known for the huge natural disaster of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79 – could be described as downright pornographic. On everything from graffiti to bathhouse murals was covered in pictures of sexual acts – with pictures, names and terms drawn on brothel doors as a menu of services to be enjoyed within. Now, thousands of years later, these inscriptions can be read to describe someone named \u2018Myrtis\u2019 who was apparently very gifted with their mouth…<\/span><\/p>\n

As the Romans Do.<\/b> Sex between men was common in ancient Roman culture and carried with it its own dynamics, including a double-standard regarding oral sex. It was a humiliation for the person who performs oral sex, which is why calling someone a \u2018sucker\u2019 was a common insult even then.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going Greek. <\/b>Fellatio didn\u2019t fare much better with Rome\u2019s neighbors: the Greeks considered a blowjob to be a \u2018waste\u2019 of seed. It was seen as one\u2019s duty to make every sperm count, as famously sung about in a well-known Monty Python ditty<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Truly Dark Ages. <\/b>The severity of medieval churches made the Dark Ages into an era that very few would describe as \u2018fun\u2019. Going down on someone went against the biblical instruction to \u2018be fruitful and multiply\u2019 and carried with it a sentence of 15 years of penance – the same sentence you\u2019d get for committing murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quite the Mouthful.<\/b> It was 1894 when the term \u2018Fellatio\u2019 was coined – sexual researcher Havelock Ellis used it in a clinical piece on sexuality and also described the performers of oral sex as \u201cfellator; if female, a fellatrice or fellatrix.\u201d. As for the term \u2018blow job\u2019, we don\u2019t know where it got its start; it appeared in pulp fiction paperbacks in the 40s.<\/span><\/p>\n

A French Affair.<\/b> Everything from kissing to condoms<\/a> to syphilis has been attributed to the French at one time or another; they even lay claim to the biggest political sex scandal of the 19th century when, in 1899, French President Felix Faure died while enjoying a blowjob from his mistress. The joke afterwards was that he \u2018wanted to live like Caesar, not die like Pompey\u2019, which is a HILARIOUS bit of punning. In French, the verb \u2018pomper\u2019 means \u2018to suck\u2019. Get it?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Good Ol\u2019 Red, White and Blowjob.<\/b> The effects of America\u2019s puritanical beginnings echo to this day, and help to explain why oral sex didn\u2019t make the leap from brothels to bedrooms until the 20th century. In the time leading up to that, blowjobs were considered a taboo, homosexual act and was actually illegal in every state until 1950. One big reason for the blow job\u2019s introduction into the popular culture and peoples\u2019 bedrooms is the novel <\/span>The Godfather <\/span><\/i>by Mario Puzo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two Thumbs Up – for Oral Sex!<\/b> A landmark film in terms of blockbuster box office and standing trial for Obscenity, the pornographic film <\/span>Deep Throat<\/span><\/i> is still one of the most easily named and recognized films in the category despite coming out way back in 1972. <\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Throat was the name used famously by the informant in the Watergate scandal –named for the film as well as for the \u2018deep\u2019 involvement of the informant in the FBI. This has most certainly led to some confusing (or eye-opening) Google searches results for history students!<\/span><\/p>\n

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