[FreeAtlanta]

I was reading this to my wife and got to "Sappho - writing on the isle of Lesbos" and I joked to my wife, is that where the term Lesbian came from? Then I continued, "apparently for a court of younger women - is treated as the patron saint of love between women". I said, oh. We just looked at each other with that silly embarassed look.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Of course it was where the term Lesbian came from. She ran a school for young girls training them to be good wives and mothers. While there is no doubt she may have loved her charges the evidence of sexual deviancy is quite slim given the volume of evidence upon which it is based.

[redheadtoo]

is that where the term Lesbian came from?

Yes, that is where the term comes from but not from Sappho's poetry. Ancient legend has the Island of Lesbos as the home of a tribe of Amazons.