Outbursts!
A Queer Erotic Thesaurus
ISBN-13: 9781551521510
Contributor(s): A D Peterkin
Subject: Lesbian Studies
Publisher Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date: 01-01-2004
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£15.99
About the book
Erotic slang words from around the English-speaking world number well into the tens of thousands, but the history of terms used to describe gay sexual activities comes from violently opposing sources: one, the discreet network of gays and lesbian who created terms for their modes of sexual practice; the other, those who found homosexuality disgusting and created phrases to denigrate its proponents. The result, a coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness.