# What qualifies as a bj? A knob gobbling poll. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867 "2010-05-26T20:12:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/1 "2010-05-26T20:12:16Z")
My wife and I are having a minor disagreement and we know the StraightDope is the only place to get a definative unbiased answer. She contends that any amount of oral attention is a blowjob while I am of the opinion that the illustrious title is only deserved if the recipient achieves orgasm. Thus we present to the largest and most diverse collection of oral artists and cunning linguists outside the Chicken Ranch the opportunity to settle this days long debate. I have divided the poll along the male/female line to find out if there is any significant difference of opinion based on chromosomes. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/2 "2010-05-26T20:14:08Z")
There’s no poll. I now have cognitive blue balls. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/3 "2010-05-26T20:14:47Z")
Relief is at hand. Poll added. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/4 "2010-05-26T20:19:25Z")
Aaaaahhhhhhhh… I’m going to have to go chauvinist on this one, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/5 "2010-05-26T20:32:56Z")
I chose “any oral stimulation,” but I think it takes more than just a little to count as a blow job. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/6 "2010-05-26T20:36:46Z")
Guy here. I don’t consider it a blowjob unless I orgasmed from it. If she moves on to another position, all I got was “some oral”. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/7 "2010-05-26T20:37:23Z")
Orgasm achieved = blowjob No orgasm = prep work ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/8 "2010-05-26T20:37:35Z")
I agree. There has to be some effort involved. Otherwise why would it be called a “job?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/9 "2010-05-26T20:40:33Z")
It’s prep work, as stated before, unless orgasm is achieved. Also, a hand job with the occasional lick or suck doesn’t count as a blow job. It counts as a piss poor way to spice up a hand job, making me think I’ll get filet when all you deliver is ground chuck. Tsk tsk. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/10 "2010-05-26T20:41:09Z")
I mean, if I just _smooch!_ kiss the tip, no it isn’t a blowjob. But if I put a dick in my mouth, he got blown, whether he came or not (he did). Is putting your cock in her not sex if you don’t come? That is just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/11 "2010-05-26T20:54:47Z")
Echoing **miss elizabeth** ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/12 "2010-05-26T20:58:07Z")
Female. I think orgasm is a requirement for a blow job. Hence the word ‘‘job’’ – implying something was finished. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/13 "2010-05-26T21:07:29Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I mean, if I just _smooch!_ kiss the tip, no it isn’t a blowjob. But if I put a dick in my mouth, he got blown, whether he came or not (he did). Is putting your cock in her not sex if you don’t come? That is just stupid. If two people had vaginal intercourse for a while then stopped and she finished him off by fellating his member until orgasm then they had vaginal intercourse for a while followed by a blow job. They’re all sex. I can’t think of a good colloquial word for “intercourse to orgasm” that parallels blow job. But if there were such a word, say, twat job, and you had intercourse with someone but didn`t orgasm, then yes I’d say you did not have a twat job. The job was not done! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/14 "2010-05-26T21:23:13Z")
Oral sex without an orgasm would be a pretty lousy blow job, but a blow job nonetheless (IMO). ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/15 "2010-05-26T21:36:24Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Oral sex without an orgasm would be a pretty lousy blow job, but a blow job nonetheless (IMO). Even if it’s part of foreplay and is followed by “real” sex? 😕 Does my husband think most of my blow jobs are lousy because they’re part of the build-up to us having sex? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/16 "2010-05-26T21:44:31Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Even if it’s part of foreplay and is followed by “real” sex? 😕 > Does my husband think most of my blow jobs are lousy because they’re part of the build-up to us having sex? No, not at all. Mostly because he prolly doesn’t even think of them as blowjobs, since he’s not gonna come from it. It’s just oral as foreplay. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/17 "2010-05-26T21:45:26Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Oral sex without an orgasm would be a pretty lousy blow job, but a blow job nonetheless (IMO). Blowjobs are like pizza. When it’s good, it’s great. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good. Except when she uses her teeth. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/18 "2010-05-26T21:46:07Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Even if it’s part of foreplay and is followed by “real” sex? 😕 > Does my husband think most of my blow jobs are lousy because they’re part of the build-up to us having sex? How should I know why he thinks they’re lousy? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/19 "2010-05-26T21:52:11Z")
Male here. I don’t make the distinction between “oral action” and"blow job." Probably because I’m one of those guys who almost never (3 or 5 times over last 30 years) reaches orgasm through oral. I get superb oral action almost daily, and I’m going to continue to view that as receiving very frequent, and much appreciated, blow jobs. I can see, however, the utility of the distinction for the rest of you. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-qualifies-as-a-bj-a-knob-gobbling-poll/540867/20 "2010-05-26T22:05:42Z")
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