The words of simple peasants from Krakow, distinguished ladies and deadly serious medics. Have any of them survived to this day?
Doctor Stanisław Kurkiewicz, active in Krakow at the beginning of the 20th century, not only conducted extensive research on the sex life of Poles - not afraid to peep, question and even pay city residents for providing him with erotic stories - but also created the first dictionary of sexual terminology on the Vistula . Or, specifically:"Sex dictionary. A collection of phrases about sexual characteristics, ailments, etc. For use in testifying to a sexually explicit physician.
As the title suggests, the booklet was primarily intended to help stressed patients talk to their doctor. On the pages of the "Sex Dictionary" they could read how to define different sexual activities and various problems - which they experienced, but were not necessarily able to understand them clearly and without blushing.
Today, however, Kurkiewicz's publication is primarily a treasury of knowledge about how sex was once said and thought. The doctor should be applauded for collecting various folk expressions. So those used by simple Poles.
"Sex Dictionary" by Dr. Kurkiewicz. Cover page.
Some of them are presented below. Where necessary - with additional comments.
I had an orgasm, which is…
1. I went down - a Krakow doctor assured that this is the most common and simply commonly accepted term. He did not fail to add that "" to drain "[is] used both in men and in women." For the latter:"in the absence of an exact vocabulary" which would better reflect the ongoing act.
2. I got my own.
3. I'm done with mine.
4. Got caught.
5. I passed it.
6. Good to do - Kurkiewicz stipulated that this term may be misleading. The patient needs to be asked if he meant an orgasm or the "sexual bliss run" leading to him.
7. I couldn't take it - in parentheses the specialist explained:"you mean the run of sexual bliss".
"Romantic." Illustration from the magazine "Free Thought - Free Jokes", 1933.
8. It's gone of me - "It should be understood:the separation of the gables."
9. I poured / I poured myself - "Understand the same"
10. I caught up with my husband - which, to be precise, was meant to mean "climax with my husband."
11. I was equal to my husband - as above.
12. We got caught together - "Idento".
13. We got caught together - as you can see, for simultaneous orgasms, pre-war Poles did not lack any descriptions.
14. The sickness has started.
15. The pleasure from the heart came - "to define a strong climax."
16. Nature has come - and if the climax did not take place, you could say:"I had no nature."
Expertly
As befits a medic and a codifier of sexual knowledge, the doctor also proposed a number of his own professional terms for orgasm. This - as he put it - "Sexual Bliss III" could be called in the following ways:
17. A blissful summit - the official date of Stanisław Kurkiewicz and his great reason to be proud.
18. Sexual Liberation - "as a feeling after reaching climax."
19. Reaching the top - possibly an summit experience .
20. Running bliss .
21. Teasing - "to determine the control of my discharge at climax".
22. Delight - or that it would not be too easy to capture .
23. Total bliss .
24. Run of bliss .
Aesthetics straight from the 50 Shades of Gray had its amateurs before the war. Illustration from the magazine "Free Thought - Free Jokes", 1933.
25. No more soaking up bliss .
26. The highest degree of bliss .
27. Taking care of the running of bliss matter - at this stage it can be said directly that the doctor intentionally multiplied similar terms ...
28. End period.
29. Sexual delight - or and sexual delight so as not to multiply entities.
30. Sexual sedation - synonymous with sexual liberation.
31. Upload.
32. Topping up.
Of all these terms, in fact, only the "climax" has survived to this day. And this as an official, simply encyclopedic name. Only one good doctor Kurkiewicz did not come up with. The word orgasm, so popular today.
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- Stanisław Kurkiewicz, Sex dictionary:a collection of expressions about sexual characteristics, ailments, etc.:for use in testifying to a sexually explicit doctor , published by the author, Kraków 1913.