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- noun A
dildo .
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Examples
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In classical Greece, for example, the literature often described women playfully masturbating with the assistance of a device adapted to the purpose, which the Greeks called olisbos.
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One of the best of Herondas's mimes, "The Private Conversation," presents a dialogue between two ladies concerning a certain olisbos (or nbôn), which one of them vaunts as a dream of delight.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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Milesian women of a leather artificial penis, or olisbos.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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The artificial penis (the olisbos, or baubon) was well known to the Greeks and is described by Herondas.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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Traders sold these olisbos around the Mediterranean as sexual refuges for lonely ladies.
unknown title 2009
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A sex act performed during mediocre and depressing congress where one partner at the last minute produces a hidden dildonic device such as a godemiche or olisbos with the intent of stimulating their partner enough to compensate for the previous lack of skill.
adoarns commented on the word olisbos
My new favorite synonym for dildo, besides godemiche. Liddell-Scott-Jones glosses this in Latin as penis coriaceus, which as near as I can tell means leather penis.
Used in Lysistrata, for the interested. Seems to be a hapax legomenon in the Classical Greek literature, at least as far as Perseus has to say about it.
January 1, 2008