Blowjobs are Trending on Reddit!

December 5, 2023
ARIANA LEVI

Whether you call it “giving head,” “going down,” “blowing,” “sucking,” or any of the other hundreds of ways we have come up with to describe fellatio, we are all familiar with the art of blowjobs.

Dear Fleshbot reader, if you’re reading this, you know what a blowjob is. The practice of oral sex has been documented as far back as ancient Greek and Roman societies, where the act of fellatio was depicted in various paintings believed to be thousands of years old. However, as time went on, this intimate form of 'lovemaking' faced prohibition in certain regions during medieval times and, more recently, in select American states during the 1950s.

Fun facts about blowjobs:

In Egyptian mythology, the goddess Isis revived her dead brother Osiris by sucking his penis. It is one of the oldest depictions of oral sex in the world.

In Medieval Europe, oral sex was banned because it was considered “unnatural” since it could not lead to procreation. Those found guilty of cunnilingus were given four years' penance for their sin, while those who committed fellatio were given five.

In Ancient Rome, fellatio was considered profoundly taboo. Sexual acts were generally seen through the prism of submission and control. This is apparent in the two Latin words for the act: irrumare (to penetrate orally) and fellare (to be penetrated orally). Under this system, it was considered to be abhorrent for a male to perform fellatio since that would mean that he was penetrated (controlled), whereas receiving fellatio from a woman or another man of lower social status (such as an enslaved person or debtor) was not humiliating.

Fellatio was considered a felony in almost every state in 1950.

BJs are not a safe sex option. It is possible to get herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, HPV, and viral hepatitis from oral sex. Safety first!

One of the earliest incarnations of fellatio in literature occurs in one stanza of a piece by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who died in 1822. (The line is "Suck on, suck on, I glow, I glow!")

An act of group sex restricted to one woman giving oral sex to several men is referred to as a gangsuck, blowbang, or lineup, all derivatives of the slang term gang bang for group sex. Bukkake and gokkun may also involve oral sex.

Oral sex is commonly used as a means of preserving virginity, especially among heterosexual pairings; this is sometimes termed technical virginity (which additionally includes anal sex, mutual masturbation, and other non-penetrative sex acts but excludes penile-vaginal sex).

The most popular NSFW Blowjob subreddits are:

r/Blowjobs (1.9M members): Because some people like to get head. A community for people who want to share gifs and pictures of women performing the act of fellatio.

r/deepthroat (1.5M members): A big bunch of deepthroat gifs and videos.

r/LipsThatGrip (1.9M members): We've got the grippiest lips