The style is said to have developed in Chicago nightclubs like the Warehouse and the Power Plant, where house pioneer Frankie Knuckles was resident DJ, and Ron Hardy's Music Box, during the early 1980s.
[2] Even more than disco, house music endorsed an “abandonment of subjectivity and self-will”, promoting the “ecstasy of being enthralled by the beat”.
[2] He sees jacking as a reflection of this abandonment of subjectivity: “In disco, dance had gradually shed its role as courtship ritual and opened up into unpaired freestyle self-expression.
Jacking took this to the next stage, replacing pelvic thrust and booty shake with a whole-body frenzy of polymorphously perverse tics and convulsive pogo-ing.” — Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy, 1999, p. 29[2]A similar account on the sexual content of jacking was suggested by Barry Walters in his 1986 article on house music in SPIN magazine: “House lyrical content consists of dancing and sex.
‘Jacking your body’ (moving up and down on a dance floor) can easily slide into sex.