Fingering (sexual act)

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)