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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Social Science
published: Nov 2003
ISBN:9781551521510
publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
Description
Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives; and the other, those who found gay sexuality repellent, and created phrases that denigrated and insulted its proponents. The result? A coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness.
A.D. Peterkin shows how euphemism, camp humor, rhyme, acronym, foreign language, mythology, metaphor, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals to name what was thought to be unnamable.
Editorial Reviews
...Peterkin is delving even further into language that would make Roger blush in public...
-Monday Magazine
— Monday Magazine
Even a long review cannot do justice to this intriguing reference book.
-Bluefood
— Jean Roberta
...a very entertaining, well-researched little guide.
-Xtra! Magazine
— Xtra!
It's pleasing that the last word in this hot little dictionary is "voyeur". What could be more apt for our relationship to this book . . .? We're take a peep at somebody else's way of, well, taking a peek.
-New Pages
— New Pages
Remember being excited as a child each time a new sex-related word entered into your vocabulary? Relive that titilating experience while at the same time broadening your sexual knowledge by reading this book.
-The Link
— The Link
...provides a source for pornographers--indeed all writers with a sense of humour--to vary their limited and predictable dialogue when it comes to the old ins and outs.
-Frontiers Magazine
— Frontiers
Pick up Outbursts! and give your hands something constructive to do for a change.
-Dallas Voice
— Dallas Voice
...clever and funny...
-Time Out London
— Time Out London
Amusing, informative, enlightening... Ample fodder to enliven your Ph.D. thesis or resume.
-Lavender Magazine
— Lavender
...Peterkin's salaciously erudite Outbursts is more than a sniggering collection of slangy definitions.... It's also a work of queer historical empowerment.
-Bookmarks
— Bookmarks
. . . a perversely potent queer erotic thesaurus. This is a fun book, but it can also be seen as a historical document. This is the evidence of queer sexual history.
-Trade: Queer Things
— Trade: Queer Things
Outbursts contextualizes both historical and contemporary terminology for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals, and offers nine full pages of terms for gay males--from "anal buccaneer" to "zebrajox"!
-My Messy Bedroom
— My Messy Bedroom
