Fingering (sexual act)

Put out your ‘hand’ and stroke my quim! —Epic of Gilgamesh

Fingering, also known by many other names, is manual stimulation of the female pudendum—usually as a means of sexual arousal.

Quotes

• O my Ishullanu, let us taste your vigour:
  Put out your ‘hand’ and stroke my quim!
  • Epic of Gilgamesh (18th century BC)
    Translated by Andrew R. George (1999)

• And thakked hir aboute the lendes weel,
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Milleres Tale" (1380s–1390s)

• Then stroke her Breasts those Mountains of Delight,
  Whose very Touch would fire an Anchorite.
  Next let thy wanton Palm a little stray,
  And dip thy Fingers in the Milky Way:
  Thus having raiz’d her, gently let her fall,
  Love’s Trumpets sound, Now Mortal have at all.
  • Alexander Radcliffe, "The Canary Mistress", The Ramble, &c. (1682)

See also

• Groping
• Human sexual activity