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A well liked historic style is ”
faux sociological studies of human sex that state crazy-ass crap about lesbians
,” and even though these were a
huge trend into the 1950s and 60s
there is certainly a-deep and wealthy reputation of mainly straight males speculating on or revealing in what females perform in bed with each other inside the name of analysis and info and anthropology and definitely not because it’s sexy to read through about.

The majority of these excerpts originate from or were discovered because of

Sapphistries: A Global Reputation Of Love between Females

by Leila Rupp and

Surpassing the Love of Men

by Lillian Faderman.

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How Lesbians Have Sex, Relating To Folks From Record

1. maybe the devil is involved

“they just do not place skin to skin in the same manner on the genital organ of a single in the torso of the additional, since character precludes this, nonetheless they do change the employment of the user at issue into an unnatural one, for the reason that they have been reported to utilize particular tools of diabolical procedure to stimulate need.”


—Hincmar of Reims, 9th millennium

2. Or fencing. Surely fencing.

“They bang coffin against coffin” and “they don’t really work with a pestle in their mortar” and “they play the video game of thigh-fencing.”


—Etienne de Fougères in Livres diverses manières, 12th 100 years

3. Maybe it’s simply like heterosex?

“Kissing and hugging […] the same as a man with females.”


—A experience from the demo of Katherina Hetzeldorfer, 1477

4. Yeah i believe it’s like heterosex.

“If a female becomes upon a female, and both fall to thrusting at each and every various other mutually, it might probably take place the seed of her over the top could be injected in to the organic vase of her installing underneath.”


—Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, in Peccatum Mutum: the key Sin, 1893

5. every person’s a switch.

“Occasionally the partner will be the mistress / Occasionally the mistress is the lover.”


—Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (1595–1650),
Sonnet XXXIII

6. Root veggies

“They dress a foster-sister or girl or servant woman like a guy and reduce their own need with dildos or with light bulbs, sources, or fresh fruits which have that kind.”


—Kama Sutra, 2nd 100 years

7. Yep. Undoubtedly root vegetables.

“Wives would cut a sweet potato or manioc root by means of a man organ, or make use of a banana with the aim. Two of them would shut themselves in a hut and something would rest on sleep and have fun with the female character whilst the other, making use of the synthetic body organ tied around her belly, played the male part. They then reversed functions.”


—E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1930s

8. In addition scissoring.

“The one that must stay underneath lies on the girl back, extends out one lower body and bends additional while bending somewhat to the side, consequently offering her beginning [vagina] wide-open: meanwhile, one other lodges this lady bent knee in her own groin, puts the lip area of her pussy amongst the lips that exist on her behalf, and starts to scrub the snatch of the woman friend in an up-and-down and down-and-up activity that wanks the complete human body.”


—Shihâb al-Dîn Ahmad al-Tîfâshî, composer of The Delight of Hearts, 13th 100 years

9. perhaps from inside the tub???

“some reasonable girls naked and also at the tub, which did touch, and feel, and handle, and stroke, someone another, and intertwine and fondle with one another, therefore enticingly and prettily and featly did show each of their undetectable beauties.”


—Signeur de Brantôme, in
Schedules of Fair and Gallant Girls
, 1665

10. …This you’re form of precise really.

“[Sappho’s picture] decorated the change during the hallway where every thing was calculated to make feeling and fantasy reel. The orgies exposed with flagellation and finished in the a lot of shameful of intimate perversions. Strong hatred against males had been 1st concept.”


—Frusta, in Flagellation therefore the Jesuit Confessional, 1834