[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fruit" (Male Homosexual)

[Shapiro, Fred]

fruit (OED, 9.,1927)

1906 J. Richardson Parke _Human Sexuality_ 310

These young men, corresponding in many cases very closely to the feminine type, in features, forms and manners, are variously known to their patrons and outsiders , according to their different professions, as "tasters," "fruit," "lady-men," and "Dolly Vandens," whose intercourse is had by orastupration.

Fred Shapiro

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