Not to digress about homosexuality, but I've been having a lively debate about sex portrayals in sexuality textbooks. It's sort of funny, because all of us on the team are used to the terminology, of talking about this act and that position without giggling or awkward silences, but then we have to step back and ask, "What will get us investigated at the University of Kansas?"

(That really happened -- a prof at KU was showing sexually explicit learning materials in his sexuality course, and was accused in the state legislature of showing pornography.)

Needless to say, this continues to shoot down my basic argument that 5 pages of drawings showing different f/m intercourse positions, to one drawing of two naked men basically waving hello to each other, is a rather unbalanced portrayal of the realm of sexual expression.

But what were they waving hello WITH?

Well, in Kansas they probably want you to take out the waving, too.

Sadly, their hands.

That's our wimpiest book, though. The better ones at least have mutual masturbation and tribidism portrayed, although they are still dwarfed by the coverage of how to insert a penis into a vagina to best advantage. Cunnilingus and fellatio are het couples, and are, how you say, not drawn from models -- the perspective is all wonky and makes it look like women can fold their legs above their heads, e.g. No drawings of anal sex or the actual use of sex toys. (Sex toys are OK when they are sitting still by themselves on a shelf.)

(Sex toys are OK when they are sitting still by themselves on a shelf.)

... and now I want to write a regency romance in which the poor sex toy is saved by a tall, dark, handsome chap from the sorrow of being left on the shelf.

tribidism

I know not of this "tribidism"

(Sex toys are OK when they are sitting still by themselves on a shelf.)

I can say from personal experience that they are funny as hell when sitting by themselves on a shelf, showing off their handy-dandy rotating feature.

Holy cow. You've stumped PornyPants!

awed

(I also know not tribidism, fwiw)

Google is your friend ... the first search result says:

TRIBE 8 INTERVIEW
... Tribidism" is what people think lesbians do, 
which is humping on something to get-off.
TW: OK. Pretty straightforward. I guess it's like
a pun then? LB: Yeah. ... 
Description: Lynn Breedlove talks about 
Category: Arts > Music > Bands and Artists > T > Tribe 8
www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc-18/roc18-08.htm 
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some people seem almost too eager to make it about something other than homosexuality.

Actually, I was complaining that the conservatives were doing that.

Oh, yes, I knew that that was what you were arguing Betsy, and posted what I did because I agreed with you! Sorry if that was unclear.