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The love that dare not speak its name

"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the "Love that dare not speak its name," and on account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. That it should be so, the world does not understand. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it." = Oscar Wilde 1845-1900
Oscar Wilde is a really hoopy frood who didn't deserve to be put in jail.
''The love that dare not speak its name'' came from a poem by Lord Alfred Douglas (Oscar's boyfriend)
by A Broken Student September 26, 2010
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Speaking to Jack the Cat

Speaking to this cat means jacking off or playing with your pussy as if its a guitar, usually applied to females but is not gender specific could also be applied to men (Speaking to Jack the sausage).
Are you going to speak to Jack the Cat?
How often do you talk to Jack the Cat?
Did you enjoy speaking to Jack the Cat?
by SteelCraftHD January 22, 2020
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The love that dare not speak its name

An archaic term for gay sex. To bust the booty. To punch the doughnut. The poke the poopies.
We caught Ebenezer and Zachariah performing the love that dare not speak its name, so they were banished from the town, never to return.
by Ward and June Cleaver October 2, 2004
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Where the natives go to shit and sharpen there spears

A secluded hang out that few know about. where a man and woman can go to fuck and no one will know and there is usually no one around so you can shit in private.
I'm going to where the natives go to shit and sharpen there spears are you coming with me?
by Deep Blue 2012 September 10, 2009
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THE YEAR WE DO NOT SPEAK OF

*whispered*
two-thousand-sixteen

2016
"Remember when we went to DC?"
"Shhh, we do not speak of that year."
"What year?"
"THE YEAR WE DO NOT SPEAK OF."
by bl33d3r December 21, 2016
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