fapp and phallologocentrism

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Urban Dictionary terms: double clicking the mouse, tuning the piano,
finger diddle; playing the clitar, diddle the skittle, shlick, jackin'
the box, squeak your Pink, roughing the diamond, flick the bean,
flicking the bean, jill off, jilling off, playing DJ Hero, drowning
the bunny (reference to rabbit style vibrator)

Undefined keyword terms: ragging the ruby, excersing ones right to
privacy, rubbing budhas tummy

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock
<spanbocks at verizon.net> wrote:
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> For no particularly good reason, I always presumed that 'jack' was =
> somehow short for 'ejaculate' and 'jerk' referenced a particularity of =
> the movement, neither being really applicable to female masturbation.
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> It's funny - my children regard these emails as high-minded and nerdy. I =
> have to start hiding them in a brown paper bag.
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> Kate
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> On Sep 11, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> To "jill off" went nowhere.
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>> Female masturbation is widely known as "masturbation."
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>> Are we sure that "jack off" is used only of males?  Why should it be?
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>> What about "jerk off"? That certainly seems appropriate to many =
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>> theorists of either sex.
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>> "Whack off" "Wank"?
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>> Unlike men, women apparently wish to retain their dignity in these =
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>> JL
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>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> =
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>>> This is not something I've followed up with any research, yet. (And I
>>> regret opening a rather prurient line of thinking.)
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>>> But yesterday it was striking me that "fapp," being onomatopoeic in
>>> origin, originates from referring to *male* masturbation. "Jack off" =
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>>> similar. And then the feminist critical theory buried under detritus =
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>>> my mind started bubbling up and pointed out the exclusion of female
>>> masturbation from those terms and the corollary of denial of female
>>> sexuality, etc., etc. Not that I really want to know, but likely =
> there
>>> are terms for female masturbation out there (and probably easily
>>> findable on Urban Dictionary, if I really want to follow this line of
>>> thinking), but I'm betting that they're not onomatopoeic.
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>>> (So, I think I am once again pointing out the obvious. My work here =
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>>> done.)
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