Tribadvisor. { Robert Chester?: Go, crampe dull Mars, light Venus, when he snorts / Or with thy Tribade Trine, invent new sports. } < { the French (note the Revolutionary morality) }, but the pun doesn’t seem to have surfaced in French, presumably because (a) aviser is a false friend – try conseiller, (b) the entire population of French lesbians has fled the Hollande-ish patriarchy and opened some excellent little bars in Barcelona, and/or (c) French humour is almost as unimaginative as Spanish. There is an Italian tribadvisor out there, but it’s the start of a user-friendly account of Milan’s tribunals (author missing: Italian justice is not your friend?). The law and lesbians weren’t like that under Berlusconi.
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