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

[Chris Waigl]

Dolly Varden? Salvelinus malma? A colorful variant/relative of the Arctic
char?  https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=dollyvarden.main

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:59 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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