fapp and phallologocentrism

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Vo women even *need* a special slang term for masturbation?

Too obviously you haven't been reading the theoretical literature. How do
you expect wymyn to get equal pay and equal societal treatment without one?
Must male privilege extend (as Freud might cynically "put it") even this
far???


JL

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:28 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > finger-bang
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> I know this term only from a "South Park" episode in which it was made
> quite clear that "finger-bang" is the activity that I've known as
> "finger-fuck" since the Creation.
>
> BTW, is the question re *male* terms for female masturbation? *All* the
> terms that I know for this activity are used only by guys, in my
> experience, with a single exception: "jill off." I came across it first in
> a feminist essay somewhere - Widener Library? - somewhen - the '70's? - and
> entirely missed the connection with "jack off" till *very* recently, about
> 2010, after I'd come across the term here and there on the Web.
>
> I haven't checked either Google or the UD.
>
> Vo women even *need* a special slang term for masturbation? Which reminds
> me, there's the semi-unisex - I don't know whether women use it, but I've
> come across used by men to refer to the relevant activity, irrespective of
> the sex of the actor - clio, "bate."
>
> Then there's "mistressbate," which I've just made up, this very moment.
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