Man do I love my religion class

One might argue that the Arabic terms for "lesbianism" {sahq, sihaq^ and
sihaqa) and "lesbian" (sahiqa, sahhaqa, and musahiqa) refer primarily to
a behavior, an action, rather than an emotional attachment or an identity.
The root of these words (s-h-q) means "to pound" (as in spices) or "to rub,"
so that lesbians (sahiqat), like the Greek tribades, are literally those who
engage in a pounding or rubbing behavior or who make love by pounding
or rubbing. In fact, some medieval medical views of lesbianism, reported
in the Arabic sexological tradition, point to rubbing as an essential cause
of the practice. Galen, the second-century Greek physician whose own
daughter was a lesbian, according to medieval Arabic writers, is supposed
to have examined his daughter's labia and surrounding veins and to have
concluded that her lesbianism was due to "an itch between the major and
minor labia" that could be soothed only by rubbing them against another
woman's lab