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Sapphism

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sap·phism (sfzm)
n.
Lesbianism.

Lesbianism
Sexual preference by women for other women
Medical issues Lesbianism is far less studied medically than male homosexuality. Early studies indicate that lesbians are more often obese, exercise less, smoke more, eat fewer fruits and vegetables, suffer more from anxiety and depression, and are more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs. The trilogy of alcohol abuse, obesity and poor nutrition increases lesbians’ risk of breast, endometrial and ovarian cancers. Sexually-transmitted infections seen in lesbians include bacterial vaginosis, HPV, trichomonas, and herpes. Syphilis, gonorrhoea, and HIV are relatively uncommon in lesbians

sapphism
Female homosexuality. See Lesbianism.


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com Running time: About 90 minutes Audience advisory: 18 and older, simulated S&M and sapphism, obvious audience plants ItÕs common knowledge what vampires dislike: crucifixes, garlic, wooden stakes, daylight, mirrors .
LESS bodice ripper, more the artistic expression of sapphism, it is extraordinary, since this is subtitled The Love Life of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, that their story doesn't start until page 153 - of 253 pages.
95 Sarah Waters's terrific first novel, Tipping the Velvet, led its readers on a rambunctious tour through the various underworlds of late-19th-century London: music halls, boy-hustling and cruising scenes, aristocratic sapphism, and dyke socialism, all through the eyes of a cross-dressing "tom," Nancy Astley.
 
 
 
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