In 1987, a non-scientific study ( Munson ) " was conducted of more than 100 members of a lesbian social organization in Colorado " and " [ w ] hen asked what techniques they used in their last 10 lovemaking sessions, 100 % were for kissing, sucking on nipples, and manual stimulation of the clitoris; more than 90 % reported French kissing, oral sex, and fingers inserted into the vagina; and 80 % reported tribadism ".
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Judith Halberstam, in her book " Female Masculinity ", stated, " If we trace the use of the term forward into present, we find that tribadism is one of those rarely discussed but often practiced sexual activities, and the silence that surrounds it now is as puzzling as the discourse it produced in earlier centuries . " She added that Sigmund Freud " had nothing to say " with regard to the topic, " and few contemporary lesbian sex books even discuss it ".
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In 2010, in response to California State University, Long Beach refusing to advertise the play " The Night of the Tribades " on the Seventh Street marquee because of the word " tribades " in its title, approximately 24 theater arts majors protested in front of Brotman Hall by simulating tribadism ( including scissoring ) . " When you put tribade into a Google search image, apparently it comes up with the word tribadism, which is a sex act and they decided it was inappropriate, " stated one student.
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In 2010, in response to California State University, Long Beach refusing to advertise the play " The Night of the Tribades " on the Seventh Street marquee because of the word " tribades " in its title, approximately 24 theater arts majors protested in front of Brotman Hall by simulating tribadism ( including scissoring ) . " When you put tribade into a Google search image, apparently it comes up with the word tribadism, which is a sex act and they decided it was inappropriate, " stated one student.
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In 2003, Julia V Bailey and her research team published data based on a sample from the United Kingdom of 803 lesbian and bisexual women attending two London lesbian sexual health clinics and 415 women who have sex with women from a community sample; the study reported that 85 % of the women engaged in tribadism ( whether genital-to-genital contact or rubbing genitals against another part of a partner's body ), and, like older studies, that vaginal penetration with dildos, or with other sex toys, among women who have sex with women is rare.
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In 2003, Julia V Bailey and her research team published data based on a sample from the United Kingdom of 803 lesbian and bisexual women attending two London lesbian sexual health clinics and 415 women who have sex with women ( WSW ) from a community sample; the study reported that the most commonly cited sexual practices between women " were oral sex, digital vaginal penetration, mutual masturbation, and tribadism ( frottage with genital-to-genital contact or rubbing of the genitals against another part of the partner's body ), each of which occurred in 85 % of [ women who have sex with women ] ".
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Author Bonnie Zimmerman stated, " More often, however, [ European ] writers avoided the term, instead euphemistically invoking'unnatural vice, " lewd behavior, " crimes against nature, " using an instrument,'and'taking the part of a man .'In the eighteenth century, where the term saw one of its most popular uses, it was employed in several pornographic libels against Marie Antoinette, who was " tried and roundly convicted in the press " as being a tribade . " [ Her ] rumored tribadism had historically specific political implications, " stated author Dena Goodman . " Consider her final ( fictive ) testimony in " The Confession of Marie-Antoinette " :'People !'she protests,'because I ceded to the sweet impressions of nature, and in imitating the charming weakness of all the women of the court of France, I surrendered to the sweet impulsion of love . . . you hold me, as it were, captive within your walls ?'" Goodman elaborated that in one libel, Marie-Antoinette is described as generously providing details of her husband's " incapacity in the venereal act " and that her lust resulted in her taking an aristocratic beauty Yolande de Polastron, the Duchess of Polignac ( 1749-1793 ), " into [ her ] service " and later specifying that what makes sex with a woman so appealing is " Adroit in the art of stimulating the clitoris "; Marie-Antoinette is described as having stated that La Polignac's attentions produced " one of those rare pleasures that cannot be used up because it can be repeated as many times as one likes ".
