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  • _cunnilinctus_, or oral stimulation of the feminine sexual organs, not usually mutual, but practised by the more active and masculine partner; this act is sometimes termed, by no means satisfactorily, "Sapphism," and

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • So off she went to live with some nice lesbians, whom she teased with her possible Sapphism before finally recoiling in horror when it actually came to touching any of them.

    What have Cherry Healey and Dawn Porter taught us? 2011

  • Sapphism and incest both stand at the crossroads between kinship demands and elective desires: if incest undoes kinship by overloading it from within, sapphism undoes it by displacing it from without. close window

    Notes on ''Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes' 2006

  • I have said, are hot-beds of Sapphism and Tribadism.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Radclyffe Hall, Sapphism, Sexology, and Speech Rights yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Radclyffe Hall, Sapphism, Sexology, and Speech Rights'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: "The ageing and the cynical may make wars, but the young and idealistic must fight them ..."

    Radclyffe Hall, Sapphism, Sexology, and Speech Rights 2007

  • Every week the feisty, sexy quintet make another outrageous political statement - how they lost their virginities, how they advocate female decision-making, whether they will ever experience Sapphism.

    Spice Girls back sceptics on Europe 2007

  • However, with equal typicality, she finds that Sapphism essentially unsatisfying.

    Breath and Bones 2005

  • However, with equal typicality, she finds that Sapphism essentially unsatisfying.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • I am told that both circumstances are fuel to that strange, twilight affliction popularly called Sapphism.

    kuniklos Diary Entry kuniklos 2003

  • Most specifically, the renewed interest in sensibility, even more than that for Sapphism and

    Fay, Introduction 1998

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