"oral sex" among the Victorians

[George Thompson]

JL is quite right to be suspicious.  I don't see anything obviously
wrong with the pages, but the reproducton isn't real clear, and in any
event nothing cam be decided from a reproduction.  Some one of these
days I will venture into Gilardi's website and see whether there is
anything more to be learned there.

The fact that "postillionage" was known in English in the proper (or
improper) sense in the late 1880s is a positive sign.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: "oral sex" among the Victorians

> Since OED can date "sex" as "sexual intercourse" only to 1929, one
> is skeptical of the Rev. Dodgson's using the term thus in 1882.
>