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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:56 AM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> So, is a hot dog a sandwich?

Well, if it’s a wiener it can be part of one.
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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> To: ADS-L at listserv.uga.edu
> Sent: 2/27/2019 8:34:48 AM
> Subject: Re: _sandwich à la Colette_ a method of sexual intercourse
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>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: _sandwich =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A0_?=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
>>> =20
>>> [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
>> 
>> Full title _The Way of a Man with a Maid (Or Two)_
>>> =20
>>> [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 =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.
>>>> =20
>>>> LH
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