autoeroticadj.
/ˌɔːtəʊᵻˈrɒtɪk/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊəˈrɑdɪk/, /ˌɑdoʊəˈrɑdɪk/ Originally Psychology and Psychoanalysis.
Of, relating to, or associated with autoeroticism. Later also: of or relating to auto-erotic asphyxia.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [adjective]
self-abusing1599
diddlinga1849
masturbatory1864
masturbational1890
onanistic1892
autoerotic1898
jack-off1967
wanky1976
1898 H. Ellis in Alienist & Neurol. Apr. 260 Among auto-erotic phenomena..we must further include those religious sexual manifestations for an ideal object, of which we may find evidence in the lives of saints.
1914 Lancet 9 May 1303/2 When the auto-erotic impulse of the child first turns to an external object that impulse is bisexual.
1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry vi. 115 But in some individuals the development of the libido's object-direction may be arrested at an intermediate stage (the autoerotic or the homosexual).
1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. 65/1 (list) Items covered on sex histories..Physical and physiologic data..Erotic responsiveness..Auto-erotic..Homeo-erotic..Hetero-erotic..Zoö-erotic.
1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing 362 Auto-erotic indulgences may quickly become an addiction.
1992 G. Swift Ever After vii. 77 To think there was a time when I went back to my single, solitary, auto-erotic bed.
2006 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 30 Jan. 54 The scenarios, whether an autoerotic hanging or the evaluation of a psychiatric patient, are brief and lacking dramatic tension.
Compounds
auto-erotic asphyxia n. a state of asphyxia induced deliberately, esp. by suffocation, strangulation, or hanging, to heighten sexual arousal; asphyxia induced in this manner as a cause of death.
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1980 J. C. Rupp in W. J. Curran et al. Mod. Legal Med., Psychiatry & Forensic Sci. xxi. 585 There is no known correlation between autoerotic asphyxia and other aberrant sexual activity.
1983 Amer. Jrnl. Forensic Med. Pathol. 4 341 The authors report the history of a 24-year-old male, with a 10-year practice of autoerotic asphyxia who was first seen for a conversion reaction which affected his ability to walk.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 17 Aug. The coroner said it was suicide, despite claims the singer had been indulging in auto-erotic asphyxia.
auto-erotic asphyxiation n. = auto-erotic asphyxia n..
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1973 J. C. Rupp in Jrnl. Forensic Sci. 18 262 Herein is reported a strange case of autoerotic asphyxiation by automobile.
1988 Jrnl. Forensic Sci. 33 1491 The case of an adult male who died from autoerotic asphyxiation shortly after watching a television show that discussed sexual asphyxiation is reported.
2007 Esquire Oct. 62/3 The ‘high’ of auto-erotic asphyxiation is reaching the point of orgasm while nearly, but not quite, losing consciousness through some form of tourniquet around the neck.
Derivatives
autoeˈrotically adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [adverb]
autoerotically1916
masturbatorily1973
1916 H. Northcote Christianity & Sex Probl. (ed. 2) xxi. 318 His sex consciousness proceeds indeterminately and automatically; or, to use Havelock Ellis's precise term, auto-erotically.
2001 G. Y. Okihiro Common Ground v. 117 Cho-Cho-San penetrates herself autoerotically with a phallic knife.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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