Talk:La petite mort

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correct spelling

List_of_French_phrases_used_by_English_speakers#L - la petite mort - an orgasm; lit. the little death

Le Petit Mort, Lumiere Records, ASIN: B000FJH14Y, Amazon[1]

Le Petit Morte, 24 hour service station, ASIN: B0008GGLE0 , Amazon[2]

La petite morte, Métailié , ISBN: 2864241382 , Amazon[3]

La Petite Mort, Quai Voltaire, ISBN: 2912517222 , Amazon[4]

La Petite Mort : Anthologie érotique de littérature fantastique, Albin Michel - L'Echo des Savanes, ISBN: 2226104496 , Amazon[5]

Petites morts, Editions du Rouergue, ISBN 284156102X , Amazon[6]

Grimion gant de cuir, tome 3 : La petite mort, Glénat , ISBN: 2723408248, Amazon[7]

La petite mort: sex equated to death Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.(Critical Essay): An article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, Amazon[8]

French Wikipedia entry for Mort, "[9] "la petite mort est un moment qui peut suivre l'orgasme et pendant lequel on peut paraître inconscient. "

Pathol8 [10] "La petite mort Cette expression si française, reprise parfois par des écrivains non francophones fait l'objet d'une question. ", "L’orgasme est appelé « petite mort »."

Gérard d'Houville – Petite morte[11] "

Facettes de la petite mort [12]

Info-groupe.com [13]

Galerie La Petite Mort [14]

La Petite Mort (film) [15]

Atom 20:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dwarves

"Medieval folk belief that only dwarves could experience orgasm, an act that would lead to their death"

If you can find a reference to corroborate that, go ahead and add it back. I'm removing it for now, because it seems absurd to me, besides that it's unsupported. Elliotbay 06:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

that is a reference to American Dad "Klaus: Speaking of killing, do you know what the French call an orgasm? "The little death." It harks back to the Middle Ages when only midgets were allowed to have orgasms. It's true. Read the Bible."

Murdats (talk) 17:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

La mort

Just to be clear, in French mort is feminine when it means "death" as a noun, and masculine when it refers to a dead person or victim of a murder. This is supported in my Larousse. La petite mort is clearly, to myself at least, the more accurate saying (meaning "the small death", rather than "the small dead boy")--Larineso 23:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is wrong

Everything I've ever learned as this meaning a regret. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Losteem (talk • contribs) 04:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correct Translation?

Does it mean little death, or is it really the small death? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.59.249 (talk) 21:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same difference ? Little = small, pretty much. I suppose 'little' is more likely to mean 'partial', as in 'Every time we say goodbye, I die a little' (Cole Porter). I doubt he meant orgasm, though ! --195.137.93.171 (talk) 04:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect Reference

Reference 1 to the Psychoanalytic Quarterly (The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 21, 1952, No. 2. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 34:353) is incorrect. There is no reference to "post-orgasmic fainting spells" in either pages 34 or 353. Vol. 21 No. 2 is from pages 153-293. 128.143.167.232 (talk) 17:37, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]