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French
Etymology
From clitoris + -isme.
Pronunciation
Noun
clitorisme m (uncountable)
- (dated) clitorism
1813, C. L. F. Panckoucke, editor, Dictionaire des sciences médicales, volume 5, page 576:Les dames de Lesbos se livraient, dit-on, avec excès au clitorisme, et s’adonnaient même entre elles, par un raffinement d’immoralité, à cette pratique réprouvée par l’amour, et si contraire à la population.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1897, Thésée Pouillet, De l'onanisme chez la femme [On onanism in women] (Psychopathie sexuell), volume I:Il est bien entendu que je ne m’occuperai que de la masturbation chez la femme, et que je laisserai de côté les abus vénéeriens naturels et le Clitorisme, heureusement fort rare.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)