"lay pit and box together"

[Charles Doyle]

I recall that Sue Somebody, the sex advisor on late-night TV, a few weeks ago was explaining how (theoretically, at least) excessively vigorous anal intercourse (with a woman) can result in pregnancy.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:58:19 -0400
>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>Subject: Re: "lay pit and box together"
>
>A correspondent on another list notes:
>
>>According to Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang, Penguin 1972, page 699, the expression means to destroy or remove the division between anus and vagina. He dates the expression to about 1780, and his reference is to Grose's  Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785, where it is described as a simile derived from the playhouse. He does not explain the purpose of such an operation.
>
>(Same source (although 1785 instead of 1811), and still just a dictionary -- until I obtain the 1764 usage -- but still believed in 1972.
>
>Joel

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