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The term can be used as a modifier combined with other identities to show that one emphasizes or prioritizes their attraction to and relationships with other women. It may also be used as an identity on it's own, and may be found particularly useful for people who know they are attracted to women but may be uncertain if they are attracted to other genders. It can also be used to describe a relationship between two women.
== History ==
Although historians use the term sapphic retrospectively,<ref>[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo18991225.html ''The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830'', Susan S. Lanser, University of Chicago Press.]</ref><ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4053569 "Reviewed Work: ''English Sexualities 1700-1800''by Tim Hitchcock" by Dennis A. Rubini for scholarly journal ''Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies''.]</ref> the first use of sapphic as a [[sexual orientation]] was by sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in his pamphlet "Sappho and Socrates: Or How is the Love of Men and Women for Persons of Their Own Sex Explained?"<ref>[https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0008/bsb00089681/images/index.html?id=00089681&groesser=&fip=qrsxsxsyztsxdsydxdsydxdsydxdsydeayaxs&no=3&seite=5 Digitally archived version of "Sappho und Sokrates: Oder wie erklärt sich die Liebe der Männer und Frauen zu Personen des eigenen Geschlechts?" (in German).]</ref>
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Tumblr oiicogKkOW1vgrjllo1 1280.png|The original sapphic flag.
Download (1).jpeg|An alternate version of the original sapphic flag.
840155B1-B9FC-46BD-B32F-51507986CB6E.jpg|The midnight sapphic flag by @wintermidnight_
Sapphic 1.png|An alternate sapphic flag by
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Sf.png|An alternate inclusive sapphic flag by Gay Breakfast
Screenshot 2021-04-25 9.52.12 PM.png|An alternate of the original sapphic flag by
6 23 2021 8 24 43 PM.png|An alternate sapphic flag by a-marianra-sauce.
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== Etymology==
The word ''sapphic'' comes from the name of the Greek poet ''Sappho''. The island she was born on, Lesbos, is where the word lesbian is derived from.
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