Rath on 08 July 2008
| The Ghost of RubangB said: The word lesbian come from the Island of Lesbos, because this one female teacher there (Sappho) had sex with a bunch of her students in the same teacher-student fashion, and it was the first time we had records of a woman doing that. But instead of naming it after her, we named it after her island? I guess Lesbian sounds prettier than Sapphic. |
You sure on that part? I was fairly sure that Lesbianism was named after Lesbos because Sappho wrote homoerotic poems, I didn't think she was a teacher at all. Also sapphic does mean 'in relation to lesbianism' so it is still a word.
