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Devil's triangle can be a slang reference to a male-female-male sexual threesome.
Etymology
[edit]References to the phrase date back to as early as 1915[1]
- triangle n. [1930s+] a 3-way relationship, in any combination of sexes and sexualities.[2]
- If we refer to the actual definition of The Devils threesome according to Sextionary this triangle is comprised of two men and one woman. I wonder if it gets its title from some woman long ago declaring the "Devil made me do it!"[3]
- "Pythagorean sex triangle,"[4] composed of Isis (horizontal), Osiris (vertical), and Horus (hypotenuse).
References
[edit]- ^ "Dancing in High Schools" (secion: "Washington, D.C.," by Wilbur Fisk Crafts; 1850–1922, Superintendent of the International Reform Bureau), Journal of Education, Vol. 82, No. 19 (2055), November 25, 1915, p. 510 of pps. 507–511 (www
.jstor .org /stable /42828648) - ^ Cassell's Dictionary of Slang(2nd ed.), by Jonathon Green, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998, 2nd ed. 2005); OCLC 1012031832
- ^ "The Cleis Press Sextionary," Cleis Press, December 6, 2017; OCLC 1001809582
- ^ Harvey Lovewell, "Geometry and Masonry: Sacred Geometry," Pietre Stone's Review of Freemasonry (website), June 5, 2012, Relating the King (Osiris), Queen (Isis), and Divine Child (Horus) also recalled the Aleister Crowley-Freida Harris tarot deck. Specifically, Trump number 6, "Lovers," depicts a sort of sexual conjunction of opposites: what can be fairly interpreted as the breaking of sexual taboo – the coital union of forbidden lovers, the black and white, the adulterous union of the Red Queen and White King (in Alice-in-Wonderland-esque language), the incestuous relationship of Cersei and Jaime Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire, etc. Additionally, since Osiris was slain and mutilated by Set, leaving his sister-queen Isis a widow, Horus is a kind of "widow’s son," Like the Masonic Hiram Abiff. See Lovewell, loc. cit.