How To Make Blowjobs Boring

by Alex Balk March 31, 2016

“In modern times, sex slang is all work and decreasing play, and ‘blow job’ leads the way towards labor. Words, slang included, ring with psychic resonance, and ‘job’ is not a value neutral term. Most of us do our jobs with reluctance. Sure, there’s a payoff, and there’s satisfaction in a job well done, but if we’re honest with ourselves, our jobs tend not to bring us as much joy as we’d hope. We are all thirsty Marxists, somewhat alienated from our labor and definitely wanting more. And this is the issue with the whole family of ‘job’ sex slang. As much as violent terminology shapes our thinking and the ways in which we talk about fucking, so too do capitalist terms. It says something about our relationship to sex when we think of sex in terms of labor.”
— Yeah, whatever, Emma Goldman. Listen up: It’s “blowjob.” One word. Let’s not have this discussion again.