spintrian
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Etymology edit
From Latin spintria (“male prostitute”), from Ancient Greek σφιγκτήρ (sphinktḗr, “something which binds”), referring to the anal sphincter.
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spintrian (comparative more spintrian, superlative most spintrian)
- Of or pertaining to sex or fornication (especially homosexual) between three or more people.
- 2001, Bette Talvacchia, Taking positions: on the erotic in Renaissance culture[1], →ISBN, page 250:
- There is a Pompeiian fresco with a spintrian grouping of three, composed of a heterosexual couple similar to that in scenes 7-15 (see n.48, above) with the addition of a male-male joining; see Maulucci Vivolo, Pompei i graffiti, 118.