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ive recently found out that in the 80s lesbians who were more interested in cuddles and kisses rather than sex were called bambi lesbians
it’s such a cute thing omg let’s bring this term back
the love ace lesbians found for this post warms my heart mind body and soul and spirit
reblog to make an ace lesbian feel happy
Okay, so I hate to be a Debbie-Downer here because I would love to use this term for myself. But I went back and tried to look into how accurate this is and honestly? The only source for the term is literally OPs. Everyone who mentions “bambi lesbians” always points back to this post. I even went into archived text and lgbt magazines SPECIFICALLY in the 80s and it never came up. I sure as hell found every other kind of lesbian category (I could even tell you when they started to trend in the community) but not that one.
Sorry, OP is either lying or got lied to. But hell, use the term anyway because lgbt slang is always evolving. Make it a thing. Just don’t keep quoting it was a thing in the 80s because there’s no evidence and its misinformation.
…well, i mean, a quick Google search turns up the 2012 Autostraddle article “20 Lesbian Slang Terms You’ve Never Heard Before” which includes among its terms:
BAMBI-SEXUALITY: Physical interaction centered more about touching, kissing, and caressing than around genital sexuality. Not to be confused with bestiality, a very different concept.
the author of the article cites the term as being from “the 1989 Alyson Almanac‘s “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms””, even linking directly to the almanac on Amazon.com.
a quick Google search for Alyson Almanac turns up a complete PDF scan of the January-March 1994 edition of the Alyson Women’s Book Catalog which, besides being an interesting read in and of itself (cw: for explicit sexual content), includes an advertisement for the Alyson Almanac on page 10.
moreover, on the following page is the very “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms” cited in the Autostraddle article.
[ purple highlights added for emphasis, blurring added for explicit content. ]
noteworthy is that bambi-sexuality is listed with the same definition, word-for-word, as given in the Autostraddle article.
meaning that regardless of how prevalent the term was or was not the past, there is precedent for bambi-sexuality (or, in other words, “bambi lesbians”) being a thing at least as far back as 1994– if not further back into the late 80′s, as the Autostraddle writer and OP have stated.
also, you know, this post by @queerasfact.
long live bambi lesbians, be they ace-identified or not.
This is really cool but I’m kind of losing my shit over “gillette blade” for bisexual women. I love that so much everyone must call me that from now on.
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battlships:
queerascat:
electronicmyotis:
ambergirl986:
nonbinarysapphic:
nonbinarysapphic:
ive recently found out that in the 80s lesbians who were more interested in cuddles and kisses rather than sex were called bambi lesbians
it’s such a cute thing omg let’s bring this term back
the love ace lesbians found for this post warms my heart mind body and soul and spirit
reblog to make an ace lesbian feel happy
Okay, so I hate to be a Debbie-Downer here because I would love to use this term for myself. But I went back and tried to look into how accurate this is and honestly? The only source for the term is literally OPs. Everyone who mentions “bambi lesbians” always points back to this post. I even went into archived text and lgbt magazines SPECIFICALLY in the 80s and it never came up. I sure as hell found every other kind of lesbian category (I could even tell you when they started to trend in the community) but not that one.
Sorry, OP is either lying or got lied to. But hell, use the term anyway because lgbt slang is always evolving. Make it a thing. Just don’t keep quoting it was a thing in the 80s because there’s no evidence and its misinformation.
…well, i mean, a quick Google search turns up the 2012 Autostraddle article “20 Lesbian Slang Terms You’ve Never Heard Before” which includes among its terms:
BAMBI-SEXUALITY: Physical interaction centered more about touching, kissing, and caressing than around genital sexuality. Not to be confused with bestiality, a very different concept.
the author of the article cites the term as being from “the 1989 Alyson Almanac‘s “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms””, even linking directly to the almanac on Amazon.com.
a quick Google search for Alyson Almanac turns up a complete PDF scan of the January-March 1994 edition of the Alyson Women’s Book Catalog which, besides being an interesting read in and of itself (cw: for explicit sexual content), includes an advertisement for the Alyson Almanac on page 10.
moreover, on the following page is the very “Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms” cited in the Autostraddle article.
[ purple highlights added for emphasis, blurring added for explicit content. ]
noteworthy is that bambi-sexuality is listed with the same definition, word-for-word, as given in the Autostraddle article.
meaning that regardless of how prevalent the term was or was not the past, there is precedent for bambi-sexuality (or, in other words, “bambi lesbians”) being a thing at least as far back as 1994– if not further back into the late 80′s, as the Autostraddle writer and OP have stated.
also, you know, this post by @queerasfact.
long live bambi lesbians, be they ace-identified or not.
This is really cool but I’m kind of losing my shit over “gillette blade” for bisexual women. I love that so much everyone must call me that from now on.
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