When I was a teenager, I had an older relative who used to like to tell any young person who crossed her path, "You kids think you invented sex! After all, hadn't sex been pretty much limited to heterosexual missionary-style couplings with the lights off until, like, ? Of course, after I took a break from having my vagina touched and decided to go read some cultural history, I learned that sexual innovation was nothing new. Not only had people been inventing and dropping sexual trends since pretty much the beginning of recorded history, but many of our most hallowed sexual and romantic traditions started as freaky sexual trends hundreds or thousands of years ago. Or, conversely, some things that we currently think of as freaky trends were considered totally vanilla and normal hundreds of years ago. So what did our ancient ancestors do when they were looking to spice things up on date night?

Have you ever wondered where certain words came from? Take blow job for example. Blow job is the slang term for fellatio, and like many words in the English language it has evolved over time to become what it is today. It would come as no surprise to discover that many words and phrases we use today had very different origins. Sometimes it was due to confusion or misunderstanding, as was the case when the sperm whale got its name.

While the history books are filled with many a first the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe, the first radio transmission, and the first president , there is one very notable first that is sadly omitted: the BJ. Who honestly was it who took a look at the D and said, OK, put that in my mouth now? After doing some research on the subject it appears there are some who trace fellatio back to prehistoric times.

Fellatio also known as fellation , [1] and in slang as blowjob , BJ , giving head , or sucking off [2] is an oral sex act involving a person stimulating the penis of another person by using the mouth , throat , or both. Fellatio can be sexually arousing for both participants, and may lead to orgasm for the partner being fellated. Most countries do not have laws banning the practice of fellatio, though some cultures may consider it taboo. In fellatio the -us is replaced by the -io while the declension stem ends in -ion- , which gives the suffix the form -ion cf.