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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Dolly Varden [sic], of course, was a character in Dickens's _Barnaby Rudge_.

JL

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 2:45 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> J. Richardson Parke employed the term "orastupration" in the excerpt
> provided by Fred. The term is not listed in the OED. Parke claimed
> that he coined the term. See the 1912 excerpt below
>
> Year: 1912
> Book Title: Human Sexuality A Medico-Literary Treatise
> Author: J. Richardson Parke
> Publisher: Professional Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> Chapter 6: Inversion of the Sexual Impulse
> Quote Page 285
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Orastupration (a word of my own coining) seems to have been one of the
> very earliest forms of sexual abuse. And it is readily accounted for.
> The heat of the mouth, the secretion of salivary mucus and the sucking
> movement of the lips, simulating that of the vagina ...
> [End excerpt]
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 1:46 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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