"oral sex" among the Victorians

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/4/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

And anyway, wouldn't we expect a more colorful term like
"gamahuching"? ISTR that was the favored expression in
Victorian/Edwardian erotica like _The Pearl_.


--Ben Zimmer