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==Stone butch== | ==Stone butch== | ||
Going back to at least the 1960s or 50s, a "stone butch" is a masculine lesbian.<ref name=Halberstam>{{Cite book|last1=Halberstam|first1=Judith|title=Female Masculinity|year=1998|edition=1st|page=111|publisher= | Going back to at least the 1960s or 50s, a "stone butch" is a masculine lesbian.<ref name=Halberstam>{{Cite book|last1=Halberstam|first1=Judith|title=Female Masculinity|year=1998|edition=1st|page=111|publisher=Duke University Press|location=|chapter=Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues|isbn=0822322269|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/femalemasculinit00judi}}</ref> A "stone" is one who has a sexual role in which they enjoy bringing pleasure to their partners, but do not like being touched on their own genitals.<ref name=Zimmerman1999>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Zimmerman|editor-first1=Bonnie|title=Lesbian Histories and Cultures|year=1999|edition=1st|page=140|publisher=Routledge|location=|isbn=978-0815319207|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim}}</ref> Being "stone" in this way can be connected with sexual trauma, [[gender dysphoria]], or the [[Romantic and sexual_orientation#Asexuality|asexual spectrum]] (not feeling certain types of sexual attraction). | ||
In relation to gender, a femme lesbian named Rachel Tessler wrote in 1996 that "some stone butches are almost beyond butch. They're almost in a kind of territory between genders, beyond being women. I think some stone butches aren't really women, in the way that they think about people."<ref>''Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins...'', p. 104-105, Columbia University Press, 1996</ref> | |||
==Soft butch== | ==Soft butch== | ||