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

[Peter Reitan]

So, is a hot dog a sandwich?

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From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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Sent: 2/27/2019 8:34:48 AM
Subject: Re: _sandwich à la Colette_ a method of sexual intercourse

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>>  On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:37 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole =
><adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  Partridge presents a definition for "sandwich" encompassing a wide
>>  variety of possible acts and configurations.
>>=20
>>  Year: 2013
>>  Title: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional =
>English
>>  Edition: Second
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>>  [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]
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>>  The first sandwich citation in Partridge is male-male-male in 1971
>>  instead of male-female-male.
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>>  Here is a precursor in 1908 with the phrase "sandwich fashion" used
>>  within the description of a female-male-female encounter.
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>>  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/Chapt=
>er_3
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>Full title _The Way of a Man with a Maid (Or Two)_
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>>  [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]
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>Where =E2=80=9Cherself=E2=80=9D takes =E2=80=9Cmy hand=E2=80=9D as =
>antecedent (despite the proximal =E2=80=9Cit=E2=80=9Ds)?  Interesting.  =
>It sort of turns it into a quasi-FFF enc(o)unter.  (A case of =
>assimilation perhaps, as with intervocalic voicing.)=20
>
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>>  On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:53 PM Laurence Horn =
><laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>>  Sounds like these are likely broader references to =
>threesomes/thruples/m=C3=A9nages =C3=A0 trois, whether MFF as below or =
>presumably MMF, rather than specifically denoting MFM sandwiches with =
>bread and filling as itemized upthread.
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>>>  LH
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