The lioness on the cheese-grater
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The lioness on the cheese-grater was the name of a sexual position in Ancient Greece.
The term is first found in various translations of Lysistrata.
From The Classical Experience of the Sexual Impulse (Sex in literature; v. 2) by John Alfred Atkins (1973):
- .. and if he uses force when I am reluctant, I will give way only with a struggle and I will not follow his movements: I will not make my way to his house, nor will I take up the position of the lioness on the cheese-grater...
In this translation, that same phrase is rendered as "Nor will I crouch like carven lions on a knife-handle."
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