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

[Jonathan Lighter]

  But does the phrase "oral sex" occur in _The Pearl_ ?

  Regardless, the attribution of the scrapbook to a famous person like Dodgson also strikes me as suspicious, as well as the fact that the prostitute he supposedly gave it to (You say her name was "Horly" ? ! ) managed to preserve it and pass it down to us, without, apparently, even Dodgson's most recent biographers getting wind of it.

  Dodgson would, unfortunately, make an ideal subject for this sort of fraud.

  JL

  Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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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





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