tribadism

Definitions

1. Lesbianism.
   uncountable
2. A sexual act in which two women rub their vulvas together.
   specifically, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos.”

“The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love⟳ among men, and this perversion takes place⟳ in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.”

“In Bali[…] homosexuality is almost as common among women as among men, though it is more secretly exercised; the methods of gratification adopted are either digital or lingual, or else by bringing the parts together (tribadism).”

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