"oral sex" among the Victorians + postil(l)ion

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:32:46PM +0000, neil wrote:
>
> However, Alfred Delvau's 'Dictionnaire Erotique Moderne', published under
> the pseudonym of Louis  De Landes in 1861 has [excuse lack of accents]:
>
> POSTILLION (Faire). Introduire le doigt, ordinairement l'index, dans le
> derriere d'une femme ou d'un homme, pendant l'acte veberien, pour doubler la
> jouissance.

And for English, OED has now found an 1880 example, in (of
course) _The Pearl_. Antedatings welcome.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED