4Origin of Sexuality
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The island of Lesbos is the home of ‘Sappho’, a poetess who wrote erotic poem directed towards other women. Sappho was known to have a serious obsession with Aphrodite. Sappho also known has ‘Psappha’ was a blue blood by birth and she was quoted to have written ‘I tell you, someone will remember us, even at another time’. Till date, Sappho has been made the symbol of homosexual women. For this reason, the word ‘lesbian’ was coined from the island ‘Lesbos’. Due to Sappho’s homoeroticism, the word ‘Sapphic’ was coined from her name. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
