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Originally posted by Donut:
LadyZ, this took me back to the days of struggling with Chaucer and Shakespeare. Throughout history antlers have been the symbol for a cuckold in art and literature.
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Definition
cuckold (noun) [C]
a man whose wife deceives him by having a sexual relationship with another man
cuckold (verb) [T]
If a man or woman is cuckolded, their wife or husband has a sexual relationship with another person.
He came back from a three-month trip abroad to discover that he had been cuckolded.
The explaination of how this came to be:
To wear the horns. To be a cuckold:
In the rutting season, the stags associate with the fawns: one stag selects several females, who constitute his harem, till another stag comes who contests the prize with him. If beaten in the combat, he yields up his barem to the victor, and is without associates till he finds a stag feebler than himself, who is made to submit to similar terms. As stags are horned, and made cuckolds of by their fellows, the application is palpable.
This is also where we get the term 'horny'.
Nobody in the UK would take offense.
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Thanks oh high throned pastry, I guess that explains it then, although again antlers have NO significance in that way here in America. LOL, but I can see the similarities, re the stag taking a lesser stag's harem. Also, I always wondered where the word "horny" came from, LOL, now I know! It's apparently all about the antlers baby!
errr. haha! [img]smile.gif[/img]