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Outbursts!: A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus Paperback – November 1, 2003
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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, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals to name what was thought to be unnamable.
A. D. Peterkin is a Toronto psychiatrist and journalist.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2003
- Dimensions5.7 x 0.4 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101551521512
- ISBN-13978-1551521510
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Pick up Outbursts! and give your hands something constructive to do for a change.
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Amusing, informative, enlightening... Ample fodder to enliven your Ph.D. thesis or resume.
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Even a long review cannot do justice to this intriguing reference book.
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Outbursts contextualizes both historical and contemporary terminology for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals, and offers nine full pages of terms for gay malesfrom "anal buccaneer" to "zebrajox"!
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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.
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...a very entertaining, well-researched little guide.
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...Peterkin's salaciously erudite Outbursts is more than a sniggering collection of slangy definitions.... It's also a work of queer historical empowerment.
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...Peterkin is delving even further into language that would make Roger blush in public...
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Allan Peterkin grew up in Winnipeg and completed degrees in literature and medicine. He is a writer and doctor now living in Toronto.
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- Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press (November 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1551521512
- ISBN-13 : 978-1551521510
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.7 x 0.4 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,514,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,370 in Dictionaries (Books)
- #8,332 in LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies
- #103,019 in Humor (Books)
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Allan D. Peterkin is a Toronto-based physician and writer.
He has published picture books for children as well as books on cultural history and medicine. He is a founding editor of ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities ( www.ars-medica.ca)and heads the Program in Health, Arts and Humanities at the University of Toronto
(www.health-humanities.com)
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Nothing at my age to learn some very rude things.






