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Masturbation   /mˌæstərbˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Masturbation

noun
1.
Manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure.  Synonym: onanism.





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"Masturbation" Quotes from Famous Books



... view in the Penitentials of the ninth century, which were ecclesiastical codes dealing, exactly in the same spirit and in the same way, with crime and with vice, recognizing nothing but a certain difference in degree between murder and masturbation. In the ninth century, and even much later, in Calvin's Geneva and Cotton Mather's New England, it was possible to carry into practice this theocratic conception of the unity of vices and crimes and the punishment as sins ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
 
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... and what is more, I believe both Mary's and her passions have already developed themselves. I have sometimes fancied I heard suppressed sighs and gentle movements going on in their beds, and I shrewdly suspect they were practising masturbation on each other. I did not interfere, and after what has passed between you and me, I will tell you that I had a little plan in my head to let them proceed to such lengths that when I chose to make ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
 
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... Effects and Consequences of Masturbation, Marriage Excesses, Venereal and Urinary Diseases ...
— Manhood Perfectly Restored • Unknown
 
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... Self-abuse (Masturbation).—This is a cause of many of the diseases of women, also men. Small girls learn the practice from larger ones, and through ignorance continue it often to maturity without knowing that it is bringing upon them a physical and ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
 
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... obscene, is patently offensive. 3. Preventing Unlawful or Inappropriate Conduct Several of the librarians proffered by the government testified that unfiltered Internet access had led to occurrences of criminal or otherwise inappropriate conduct by library patrons, such as public masturbation, and harassment of library staff and patrons, sometimes rising to the level of physical assault. As in the case with patron complaints, however, the government adduced no quantitative data comparing the frequency of criminal or otherwise inappropriate patron conduct ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 
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