tribadismn.
/ˈtrɪbədɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈtrɪbəˌdɪz(ə)m/ 1. Sexual activity between women; lesbianism.Now increasingly avoided in this general sense.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > specifically between women
Sapphism1795
tribadism1811
lesbianism1870
tribady1907
girl-on-girl1995
lady-love2003
1811–12 Additional Petition Miss Woods & Miss Pirie 1 (heading) Authorities with regard to the practice of tribadism.
1865 J. N. Casanova Physiol. & Med. Jurispr. vi. 88 The mistress made the girl her bedfellow, and they carried on the practice of Tribadism—female concubinage—for some time.
1882 J. Payne Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night II. 156 The chief reason of her sojourn with her son..was on account of the maidens at his court: for she was given to tribadism and could not exist without it.
1933 Mod. Psychologist Nov. 286/4 (advt.) What to do about pedicatio in men and tribadism in women?
1974 Times 25 Feb. 9/6 It takes more than a fever of infatuation to turn tribadism into art.
2000 C. Calhoun Feminism, Family, & Politics of Closet (2002) ii. 33 Early modern anatomists connected tribadism with possession of an enlarged clitoris.
2. spec. Sexual activity between women in which the genitals are stimulated by being rubbed against one another.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > other specific
vera copula1850
knee-trembler1896
gang-banging1949
gang-bang1950
gang-up1951
wham, bam, thank you ma'am1956
tribadism1962
bareback1963
Princeton1965
safe sex1968
onion1969
dry fuck1971
dry hump1972
barebacking1991
scissoring2003
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > homosexual sexual activity > specific
cottaging1960
tribadism1962
plain sewing1969
bug chasing1999
scissoring2003
tribbing2003
1962 R. E. L. Masters Forbidden Sexual Behavior & Morality 168 Except in tribadism (apposition and friction of the female genitals)..the individual in the male role may be left unsatisified.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 293 The prevalence of tribadism as the principal lesbian mode of lovemaking argues the relative unimportance of the masculine fantasy.
1992 Jrnl. Sex Res. 29 462 Lesbian sex, involving caressing, tribadism and cunnilingus, occurred during my observations only at bar one.
2015 A. H. Littauer Bad Girls v. 166 Others..routinely engaged in manual and oral stimulation of breasts as well as ‘genital apposition’ (also known as tribadism, or friction).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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