Antedating of "Oral Sex" and "cunnilinctus"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/8/2013 10:16 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>So it was Legman who put the c*t in cunnilingus?
>
>LH

Perhaps not.  Havelock Ellis (Studies in the Psychology of Sex) does
not have ora- or oro- in any combination (or at least his index does
not).  But he does have an index entry for "cunnilinguis [sic] or
cunnilinctus" (each italicized).  I can't give a date, since the
edition I am looking at is 1936/37.  (Earlier copyrights listed in
that edition are 1906, 1910, and 1928.)

OED2 has "cunnilingus" from Ellis's _Stud. Psychol. Sex_ in 1897 and
1905 as its earliest two quotations.  It does not have an entry for
"cunnilinctus", but does have 3 distinct quotations, the earliest
1930, for each of which it adds "[sic]".  Which I suppose is not a
moralistic judgement.

Joel


>On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>
> > In 1940 Legman, who worked with Kinsey, published
> _Oragenitalism:  An Encyclopaedic Outline of Oral Technique in
> Genital Excitation. Part I: Cunnilinctus_ (NY: J. R. Brussel).
> >
> > --Charlie
> >
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> of Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 12:26 PM
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> > 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?
> >>
> >> cwt
> >>
> >> *********
> >> Date:    Sat, 6 Jul 2013 02:15:51 +0000
> >> From:    "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> >> Subject: Antedating of "Oral Sex"
> >>
> >> oral sex (OED 1959)
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
> >> Carl William Thiel
> >> somewhere near Buffalo, New York
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