Antedating of "Oral Sex"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 7, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Carl W. Thiel wrote:

> If "oral sex" can be traced only to 1958, then what did
> Kinsey call it?

Something like "oro-genital" contact if memory serves.  (Always a stickler, perhaps he'd have considered "oral" simpliciter to refer to osculation.)  And I'm not sure he (or rather his consultants) considered it to be sex, anticipating a certain commander-in-chief to come.

LH

> Or before him, Havelock Ellis?
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> cwt
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> Date:    Sat, 6 Jul 2013 02:15:51 +0000
> From:    "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Antedating of "Oral Sex"
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> oral sex (OED 1959)
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> 1958 Harold Greenwald _The Call Girl_ 163  Most of the girls
> estimated that between seventy-five and ninety per cent of all
> their clients did not wish normal intercourse but preferred oral sex.
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