Feeling for friction

The Press | December 7, 2002| | Copyright

BRYANT LANGE, of Ashburton, is fascinated by the word frottage, which he can't find in his books. He's read news reports about a dentist accused of committing frottage by rubbing bits of his body on his patients while he worked on their teeth.

Trust old Havelock Ellis, the man who invented sex. In 1933 Ellis noted frottage as a special perversion, a desire to bring the clothed body plus usually but not exclusively the genital region into close contact with the body of a woman.

There we have it, though I do have a small grouch. We get frottage from French, where frotter is a straightforward ...

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