Antedating of "Oral Sex"

[Laurence Horn]

So it was Legman who put the c*t in cunnilingus?

LH

On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> In 1940 Legman, who worked with Kinsey, published _Oragenitalism:  An Encyclopaedic Outline of Oral Technique in Genital Excitation. Part I: Cunnilinctus_ (NY: J. R. Brussel).
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> --Charlie
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> On Jul 7, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Carl W. Thiel wrote:
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>> If "oral sex" can be traced only to 1958, then what did
>> Kinsey call it?
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> Something like "oro-genital" contact if memory serves.  (Always a stickler, perhaps he'd have considered "oral" simpliciter to refer to osculation.)  And I'm not sure he (or rather his consultants) considered it to be sex, anticipating a certain commander-in-chief to come.
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> LH
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>> Or before him, Havelock Ellis?
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>> cwt
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>> Date:    Sat, 6 Jul 2013 02:15:51 +0000
>> From:    "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject: Antedating of "Oral Sex"
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>> oral sex (OED 1959)
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>> 1958 Harold Greenwald _The Call Girl_ 163  Most of the girls
>> estimated that between seventy-five and ninety per cent of all
>> their clients did not wish normal intercourse but preferred oral sex.
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>> Carl William Thiel
>> somewhere near Buffalo, New York
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