[Ads-l] _sandwich =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A0_?=la Colette_ a method of sexual intercourse

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:37 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Partridge presents a definition for "sandwich" encompassing a wide
> variety of possible acts and configurations.
> 
> Year: 2013
> Title: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
> Edition: Second
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> sandwich noun
> 1 sex involving more than two people, the specific nature of which
> varies with use, usually sex between one woman and two men . . .
> [End excerpt]
> 
> The first sandwich citation in Partridge is male-male-male in 1971
> instead of male-female-male.
> 
> Here is a precursor in 1908 with the phrase "sandwich fashion" used
> within the description of a female-male-female encounter.
> 
> Year: 1908
> Title: The Way of a Man with a Maid
> Author:  Unknown
> Volume 2, Chapter 3
> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Way_of_a_Man_with_a_Maid/Volume_2/Chapter_3

Full title _The Way of a Man with a Maid (Or Two)_
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> The sensation of thus feeling at the same time these two full, fat,
> fleshy, warm and throbbing cunts between which my hand lay in sandwich
> fashion was something exquisite; and it was with the greatest
> reluctance that I removed it from the sweetest position it is ever
> likely to find herself in . . .
> [End excerpt]

Where “herself” takes “my hand” as antecedent (despite the proximal “it”s)?  Interesting.  It sort of turns it into a quasi-FFF enc(o)unter.  (A case of assimilation perhaps, as with intervocalic voicing.) 

> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:53 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like these are likely broader references to threesomes/thruples/ménages à trois, whether MFF as below or presumably MMF, rather than specifically denoting MFM sandwiches with bread and filling as itemized upthread.
>> 
>> LH
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