fapp and phallologocentrism

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Sep 12 15:19:25 UTC 2014


On Sep 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Brain-twister:
> 
> Both "fingerbang" and "LSMFT" can be found in what major reference work?
> 
> (Cue "The Syncopated Clock.")
> 
> JL
> 
Is it one that could also have included "diddle" and "jill off" but couldn't have included "shlick", "tuning the piano" or "playing the clitar" (unless it was under the "clitar" lemma)?  I think I'm narrowing down.

LH

P.S.  According to my sources (urbandic, of course), LSMFT can also be unpacked as "Let's Screw, My Finger's Tired".  More optimistic than the version below, as befitting the allusion to lucky strikes.


> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:56 AM, David Daniel <david at coarsecourses.com>
> wrote:
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>>>> finger-bang
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>> This engendered the famous "LSMFT" (Let's stop my finger's tired)
>> DAD
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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? -
>> 
>> By "essay", do you mean "endeavor", there in the darkness and
>> solitude of the stacks?
>> 
>> JSB
>> 
>>> somewhen - the '70's? - and
>>> ...
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