Lesbian Hanky Codes

I never would have made it as a gay person — for lots of reasons, probably. But my poor color vision would surely have doomed me, in a social world where a precise kink-nuanced hookup depended on being able to distinguish pink from robins egg blue:

In the heyday of Usenet there were a lot of hanky code lists that circulated, and I never knew how many of them were “real” in the sense that every shade and flagging variation was a thing in actual use — as opposed to somebody writing erotic literature in the form of a fantastic list of the flags they’d like to use or encounter. But this list has a credible-looking source printed right on it. Wikipedia has an entry on Samois, which seems to have been the real deal.

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