For those with the same question I had: the rule is named after the island Lesbos, the home of the poet Sappho: > Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a sym

For those with the same question I had: the rule is named after the island Lesbos, the home of the poet Sappho: > Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women,with the English words sapphic and lesbian deriving from her name and that of her home island respectively. TIL