pleasure n.
an orgasm; sexual intercourse.
Dict. Sexual Lang. I 1055: He denounces ‘those maids ... Al gyuen ... to fylthy pleasaunce’. | Inuectiue Agaynst Whoredome cited in Williams||
‘The Enjoyment’ in Poetical Remaines of Rochester, Etherege, and Others 97: Tho’ fallen from the top of Pleasure Hill, / With Longing Eyes we look up thither still. | ||
Paul Pry 27 Nov. n.p.: From this human scum[i.e. pimps] do many of these children of pleasure (?) suffer blows, indignity, and abuse of the grossest kind. | ||
My Secret Life (1966) IV 774: Then I frigged [...] and after immense trouble got a pleasure. | ||
Anecdota Americana II 28: Just about that time I had my pleasure an’ fell off the roof. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
the vagina.
‘In Katam’ in Epigrams viii: Content thee Kate, although thy pleasure wasteth, Thy pleasure’s place like a buff jerkin lasteth [F&H]. | ||
Humours of Oxford I i: gain.: What, bound for the Port of Wedlock, Sir? ape.: No, no, no, no, Sir, I only use her as a Pleasure-Boat [...] purely as a passo Tempo. | ||
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 77: He lets the fury loose [...] and driving with refresh’d rage, breaks in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft-pleasure-conduit. [Ibid.] 83: I [...] tightened the pleasure-girth around my restless inmate, by a secret spring of suction and compression. | ||
My Secret Life (1966) II 401: Yet as my belly touched hers, and my prick rubbed against her pleasure-pit it became useless. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a prostitute (cf. lady of pleasure under lady n.).
Citie Matrons 8: You Pleasure-Ladies, that live by sporting. | ||
Real Life in Ireland 91: All the pleasurable ladies from the Liberty, rode criss cross upon their neddies. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
the penis.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 123: So that stuck upon the pleasure-pivot, and clinging round his neck [...] he carried me once around the couch. |