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A gallery of illustrations of lesbian frottage, which the hentai encyclopaedia assures us is properly known as tribadism; …— AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
In addition to tribadism or cunnilinctus, they sometimes use an ebony or ivory phallus, with a kind of glans at one end, or sometimes at both ends; in the latter case it can be used by two women at once, and sometimes it has a hole bored through it by which warm water can be injected; it is regarded as an Arab invention, and is sometimes used by normal women shut up in harems, and practically deprived of sexual satisfaction.— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
Short History of Aryan Medical Science_, p. 44 In the town of D. there 'lived apart' two women, one a Brahmin the other a grazier; their modus operandi was tribadism, as an eyewitness informed me.— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
I might also instance two sisters of the gardener caste both widows, who 'lived apart' and indulged in simultaneous sapphism That sometimes the actors in tribadism are most vigorous is shown by the fact that, in the central gaol of swelling of the vulva was admitted to have been caused by the embraces of two female convicts.— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
He added that tribadism was 'quite common in the gaol The foregoing sketch may serve to show that homosexual practices certainly, and probably definite sexual inversion, are very widespread among women in very many and various parts of the world, though it is likely that, as among men, there are variations--geographical, racial, national, or social--in the frequency or intensity of its obvious manifestations.— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

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