{"product_id":"9781551521510","title":"Outbursts!: A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus","description":"\u003cp\u003eErotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives; and the other, those who found gay sexuality repellent, and created phrases that denigrated and insulted its proponents. The result? A coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. D. Peterkin shows how euphemism, camp humor, rhyme, acronym, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals to name what was thought to be unnamable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. D. Peterkin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Toronto psychiatrist and journalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050078454000,"sku":"9781551521510","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551521510_p0.jpg?v=1763753504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551521510","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}