Female Scissoring

Female Scissoring
Medically Reviewed by Dan Brennan, MD on June 29, 2021
Scissoring is a sexual position between two partners who sit facing each other and cross their legs so that their genitals touch. It is called scissoring because the position looks like two scissors crossing each other and touching at the base where the blades meet, with the legs of each partner imitating the blades of the scissors.
This sexual position is included in the sexual category of tribadism, which is when two females rub their vulvas against each other. Scissoring can be accomplished in several different positions, but it is primarily done by crossing legs with your partner.
One of the first mentions of tribadism can be traced back to the 17th century, where the word “tribade” was used as a common vulgar term for lesbians in European texts. It only died out as a term used at the end of the 19th Century.
While scissoring normally involves two females engaging in vulva-to-vulva contact, it can also include rubbing the vulva against the other partner's arm, butt, thigh, stomach, or other body parts. The idea is to stimulate the female genitalia without penetration or using the mouth and tongue.
Scissoring is pleasurable to both partners because each of their genitals is being stimulated at the same time in what is for some people a new and unique way. The closeness of the bodies and the genitals emulates traditional penetrative sex.
Tribadism, or tribbing, is the category under which the scissoring sex position falls under. Two females standing up, facing each other, and rubbing their clitorises against each other is considered tribbing but technically not scissoring because their legs aren’t intertwined. Generally, however, tribbing and scissoring are used interchangeably.
The primary myth is that scissoring can only happen between two women. This position can occur between any combination of genders, and for people with penises, can even include penetration. It is the position of intertwining the legs for the genitals to touch that constitute scissoring, not the genders of the partner.
Even though scissoring for the most part does not involve penetrative sex, care and caution should still be taken to prevent getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD). STDs can still be transmitted through oral sex and scissoring.
Using protection like a dental dam is an effective measure at preventing the spread of STDs, though they are not 100% full proof.
Before engaging in scissoring, it’s advisable for both partners to stretch their muscles -- not only their legs but their arms as well. This sexual position does require moderate physical exertion and can involve muscles that aren’t normally used in everyday life.
Scissoring involves a lot of rubbing of skin, hair, and genitals, which creates a lot of friction and could cause chafing. It’s recommended that a lubricant be used to make sure the skin and genitals can safely rub against each other.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “How to Use a Dental Dam as a Barrier for Oral Sex.”
Cosmopolitan: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Scissoring.”
Health: “4 Things to Know About Scissoring – the Sex Position That’s Not Just for Lesbians.”
Norton, R. Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Women’s Health: “What is Scissoring? All About the Sex Position that Actually Works for Everyone.”
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To be politically correct I don’t call it “Indian leg wrestling” anymore; I use the more accurate scissoring.

Scissoring is oftentimes considered a novelty, something vulva-owners try for the hell of it. There's even lesbian fan fiction about scissoring...

Sophie Saint Thomas, Refinery29 , March, 2017

What is it with straight people, especially straight men, and scissoring? Among the many sexual acts that queer women perform with each other, this one seems, at least in our experience, to be the one that fascinates them the most.

Davey Davis, The Millions , November, 2016

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or lesbian scissoring
[lez-bee- uh n siz -er-ing]

Lesbian scissoring is when two women stimulate each other by interlocking their legs and pressing their genitalia together. A great core workout … or a way to get kicked in the head during sex.
The earliest known pair of scissors are 3,000–4,000 years old, dating back to Ancient Mesopotamia. But, we know that’s not why you’re here.
A more academic term for lesbian scissoring , or simply scissoring , is tribadism , shortened to tribbing and documented in the 1800s. It encompasses all forms of genital contact between women … while scissoring specifically refers to a sex position that resembles two pairs of scissors attempting sex, hence the name.
Any movement that looks like the actions of scissors (e.g., kicking one’s legs while swimming) has been called scissoring since the early 1900s, but the sex slang emerges in internet porn and Usenet groups in the 1990s.
The term was popularized by the electroclash band, The Scissor Sisters, who formed in the gay club scene in 2001 in New York City. Scissoring further spread into the mainstream thanks to prominent references on popular TV shows like Glee and South Park. A 2007 episode of South Park featured a scissoring scene with a character, Mr. Garrison, in a bra and lipstick shouting “Scissor me timbers.”
Many people in the lesbian community are adamant that scissoring is #notathing because it’s uncomfortable, difficult, and, well, ineffective. Instead, they maintain scissoring was invented by straight people who can’t understand how two women could possibly have sex. In fact, the hand signal for scissoring , a peace sign inserted into another peace sign and wiggled around, is a gesture used to mock lesbians and lesbian sex.
However, a 2015 Autostraddle poll found that over 40% of the respondents regularly scissor , as its verb form so goes. In 2017, Mal Harrison, sexologist and director of the Center for Erotic Intelligence, told Refinery29 : “Fifteen years ago, scissoring just wasn’t something commonly discussed in lesbian circles, nor amongst my lesbian and bisexual clients.” She attributes this new trend to the popularity of scissoring in straight porn.
While some queer women do privately engage in scissoring , the term (and act) is associated with straight men viewing lesbian porn, where the word is a fairly common tag and subgenre.
Are those scissors scissoring or am I tribbin? https://t.co/CpH1KWcyRj
— Pinot Whore (@RatchetSmurf) June 25, 2018
As the South Park gag and hand gesture show, scissoring is occasionally the butt of jokes about lesbians—sometimes made by lesbians themselves.
When you cum first from scissoring so you just lay there waiting for your girl to get her nut off so she can stop destroying your vagina with her thrusts/grinds….I really be having to close my eyes and find my happy place
— A. (@lilprettydyke) June 15, 2018

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So, you see this sometimes in porn, but I'm curious, do you actually do it (or have tried it) in real life? And is it actually enjoyable? Because to me it just looks awkward and uncomfortable more than anything else! LOL Like, I'm sure there's some enjoyment if you can actually maneuver in there right, but this looks challenging and frustrating at best? lol
Girls, scissoring, does it actually feel good?
Girls does scissoring actually feel good?
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From my experience it a fun way to have your foreplay but the whole sex experience no way for someone like me who enjoys actually penetration rather than just clit stimulus it wasn’t enough to set me over the edge. So in short no it’s not
Completely absurd, since women rarely cum with penetration. Clitoris is super sensible, so it's impossible not to get over the edge with it.
I've never done it, I'm not into other women like that. But from what I understand, it's supposed to enable both of their clitoris to rub together; essentially mutual masturbation with your clitoris.
No, it clit to clit sex, not masturbation lol
It's pretty athletic, and what you see in porn is not realistic about it.
scissoring is a porn thing for men. I don't think lesbians try it a second time. If you want to know: it's like dry humping.
As a women how loves other women... i can say that's false. Tribbing/scissoring is a thing among lesbians and the porn is also for them. It's more intimate than dry humping because the lady bits are being stimulated DIRECTLY. Some women orgasm from it, some don't. It just depends on whether or not the female like clitoral or vaginal stimulation best
I'd imagine at the right angle it would.
I’ve done it a couple times and it’s fine but it’s a very inefficient way to get off it can be fun for foreplay
If he's flexible and you're flexible it is amazing.
I mean if I try hard enough (like really hard) it does kind of work. I’d rather do something else though. If my partner and I use a double ended dildo it does work.
More enjoyable than lame old boring straight sex LOL
Lol you don't have to. You just whack for that
@SlowRoast nigga it's my opinion, fuck outta here IK what I like and what I don't LOL
@Kelly11887 then you're not lesbian lol
So I’m not a lesbian I only been with women never a man.
@Kelly11887 but you agreed that LESVIAN sex isn't enjoyable, you're either bisexual or straight
You said it was lame I don’t call it lame.
@Kelly11887 are you high? I said that STRAIGHT sex is
Slowroast never mention what anything about lesbian sex.
@Kelly11887 she disagreed to my statement, which I rlly could care less and you agreed with hers, so how can you consider yourself as a lesbian when you agreed with someone who thinks lesbian sex isn't as enjoyable as straight sex
You called it born I don’t call it boring.
@2opaz so is having a small dick ROASTED
You sound like an astoundingly intelligent woman @ShesAmerican
@Dymlingur careful man i dont think she is capable of understanding sarcasm. she might take it as an actual compliment
That might be a very likely possibility
@Dymlingur LOL im pretty sure ik sarcasm since the day i was born, i really could care less about you
@2opaz i don't take compliments from some online people but okk
It’s the best as long as you both are flexible or you are flexible
Sure clits rubbing clits. Seems like it would feel good. After all most women need clit stimulation to cum.
Yeah. But also just rubbing up against each other's legs.
It does feel good sometimes but never brought us to Heaven.
I don’t know. Maybe I’ll try it with my beste.
I don’t think we actually will. We’re not really lesbian, we have only kissed and taken pics for each other.
It’s ok. But not the best for intimate contact.
What's more intimate than two sex organ together?
It does I do it mostly in begin as forrplay
Never tried it not even sure what it is
Whatever position I can feel their hard on

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