articles on euphemisms for sex

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>One suspects that the term "frottist" has been popularized because
>"frotteur" and "frotteuse" are gender-specific and too hard to spell.

I don't think "frottist" is common or popular ... probably an occasional
variant or outright error.

Google (searching the WWCE, the Worldwide Web of Crass Errors) finds four
hits for "frottist", vs. a raw number of 5900 for "frotteur". There are 13
English-language hits for "frotteuse", a word which I don't remember ever
seeing before today.

In my experience "frotteur" and "frottage" usually do not refer to sexual
rubbing in general (very conventional!) but to a person (usually a man) who
rubs his body against strangers on a train or bus or something like that,
presumably as a 'sexual' activity.

-- Doug Wilson