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I read that Medieval European languages do not have terms for describing women who are attracted to women unlike Arabic, Latin or Greek. This got me thinking, just how was female same-sex desire conceptualized in Medieval Europe? Did it differ from concepts of male homosexuality?

by /u/cleopatra_philopater in /r/AskHistorians

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