'Lioness on a Cheesegrater' explained.

[Gibbon]

Sommerstein’s commentary on the Lysistrata

‘standing on all fours’:the woman stood bending forward (sometimes resting her hands on the ground or on a bed), in a posture reminiscent of a lion crouched to spring, and was penetrated from behind (either vaginally or anally). The reference to a cheese-grater is due to the fact that the handles of such utensils were often made in the form of crouching animals.

[Platypus]

What an odd post!

You're weird

[SupremeSpod]

What an odd post!

You're weird

I asked him a while ago to explain.

[MaryPoppins]

Thanks so much Gibbon. I'll be able to sleep tonight finally, now I know that!

[MaryPoppins]

I asked him a while ago to explain.

I like how random this thread will be if you didn't read Gibbon's other thread (which I skimmed, and was most perturbed by).

[Gibbon]

I like how random this thread will be if you didn't read Gibbon's other thread (which I skimmed, and was most perturbed by).

Why perturbed?

[norrahe]

Sommerstein’s commentary on the Lysistrata

‘standing on all fours’:the woman stood bending forward (sometimes resting her hands on the ground or on a bed), in a posture reminiscent of a lion crouched to spring, and was penetrated from behind (either vaginally or anally). The reference to a cheese-grater is due to the fact that the handles of such utensils were often made in the form of crouching animals.

I'll never look at a cheese grater in the same way again.

[thunderlizard]

Thanks! I had slightly wondered about that since my school days. Good old Aristophanes.
As a special treat, you may now go to your Liddell & Scott and look up ῥαφανιδόω.

[SupremeSpod]

Thanks! I had slightly wondered about that since my school days. Good old Aristophanes.
As a special treat, you may now go to your Liddell & Scott and look up ῥαφανιδόω.

Oh my God!

I bloody knew the Greeks were weird.

[wobbegong]

Thanks! I had slightly wondered about that since my school days. Good old Aristophanes.
As a special treat, you may now go to your Liddell & Scott and look up ῥαφανιδόω.

Mmmmmmm, radishes.

Were they talking about yer salad variety or the 18" long Mooli variety?