fapp and phallologocentrism

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Diddle (oneself)" has been around forever. Why aren't they saying it more?

JL

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:57 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Urban Dictionary terms: double clicking the mouse, tuning the piano,
> finger diddle; playing the clitar, diddle the skittle, shlick, jackin'
> the box, squeak your Pink, roughing the diamond, flick the bean,
> flicking the bean, jill off, jilling off, playing DJ Hero, drowning
> the bunny (reference to rabbit style vibrator)
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> Undefined keyword terms: ragging the ruby, excersing ones right to
> privacy, rubbing budhas tummy
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> Spelling of terms is taken from Urban Dictionary.
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> Appearance in Urban Dictionary indicates a minimum guaranteed
> prevalence for slang terms, i.e., frequency of use: at least once.
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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
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> > For no particularly good reason, I always presumed that 'jack' was =
> > somehow short for 'ejaculate' and 'jerk' referenced a particularity of =
> > the movement, neither being really applicable to female masturbation.
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> > It's funny - my children regard these emails as high-minded and nerdy. I
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> > Kate
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> > On Sep 11, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >> To "jill off" went nowhere.
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> >> Female masturbation is widely known as "masturbation."
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> >> Are we sure that "jack off" is used only of males?  Why should it be?
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> >> What about "jerk off"? That certainly seems appropriate to many =
> > cultural
> >> theorists of either sex.
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> >> "Whack off" "Wank"?
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> >> Unlike men, women apparently wish to retain their dignity in these =
> > matters.
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> >> JL
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> >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> =
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> >>> This is not something I've followed up with any research, yet. (And I
> >>> regret opening a rather prurient line of thinking.)
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> >>> But yesterday it was striking me that "fapp," being onomatopoeic in
> >>> origin, originates from referring to *male* masturbation. "Jack off" =
> > is
> >>> similar. And then the feminist critical theory buried under detritus =
> > in
> >>> my mind started bubbling up and pointed out the exclusion of female
> >>> masturbation from those terms and the corollary of denial of female
> >>> sexuality, etc., etc. Not that I really want to know, but likely =
> > there
> >>> are terms for female masturbation out there (and probably easily
> >>> findable on Urban Dictionary, if I really want to follow this line of
> >>> thinking), but I'm betting that they're not onomatopoeic.
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> >>> (So, I think I am once again pointing out the obvious. My work here =
> > is
> >>> done.)
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