ABSTRACT
I once perused a large and extensively illustrated book on sexual activity by and for homosexual men. It was astounding to me for one thing in particular, namely, that its pages constituted a huge lexicon of words; words for acts and activities, their sub-acts, preludes and denouements, their stylistic variation, their sequences. Gay male sex, I realized then, is articulate. It is articulate to a degree that, in my world, lesbian “sex” does not remotely approach. Lesbian “sex” as I have known it, most of the time I have known it, is utterly inarticulate. (Marilyn Frye 1990, pp. 310-311)
