lesbian rule

lesbian rule (plural lesbian rules)

1. (rare, especially in the context of sexuality) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule
   • 1993, Wolfgang Görtschacher, “Little Magazines Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993”, in Poetry, Salzburg:

     It has to be, shall we say, you have to work with a lesbian rule, I suppose! You know what a lesbian rule is? It's a rule that you can bend.

   • 1998, Continuing Medical Education Syllabus and Scientific Proceedings in Summary Form: Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association:

     Using slides of photographs from advertising and art, the authors discuss the importance of using "lesbian rules" (a term deriving from a mason's tool that allows measuring flexibility) to understand the dimensions of sexual expression […]

   • 2013, Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller, Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New, Routledge, →ISBN:

     In an attempt to build a few intertextual bridges, we use images from lesbian literature to illustrate principles we find most useful in thinking psychoanalytically about homosexuality. We call these principles lesbian rules. A lesbian rule was originally a mason's rule made of lead […] Thus, figuratively, it became, […] "a principle allowing flexibility." […] Clinical psychoanalysis uses many such lesbian rules.