What, you don’t know what fobbing is?In this age of spam filters and porn blockers, how do we start a piece on Ellen Sussman’s Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex? Carefully.
An alphabetical romp through carnal obscenity, Dirty Words brings together 90-some writers (including Phillip Lopate and Martha McPhee) to consider a cornucopia of sexual terms like 69, taint, and Lucky Pierre. (How’s that filter doing?)
Read the rest of this short piece from The Very Short List. This site is always worth a visit.
1 comment:
So what IS "fobbing"? Even with Safe Search turned off, my pruriently curious friends and I are unable to find a definition online.
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